Rubio Defends Efforts to Bring Russia to the Negotiating Table: Diplomacy Is the Only Way to End the War in Ukraine

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RUBIO: “— here is claiming Vladimir Putin is going to get the Nobel Peace Prize this year or that he should be the Man of the Year of the Humanitarian Association. What we’re arguing here is, he has a very large country. They’re in full-war footing. They’re — they’re cranking out weapons now at a war-footing pace, and we need to figure out, is there way to get them to stop the war? And the only way you’re going to do that is to get Russians engaged in negotiations, something the Europeans haven’t been able to do, the Biden Administration wasn’t able to do or didn’t even try. That’s the goal here. It’s that simple. Can we try to sit with them and figure out whether there’s anything — what are the Russians’ demands? Under what conditions would the Russians be willing to stop this war?”