➡ Marco Rubio is advocating for peace talks with Russia to end the ongoing war in Ukraine. He believes that President Trump is the only person who can bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiation table. Rubio criticizes the current approach of name-calling and antagonism, suggesting that it hinders the possibility of peace talks. He emphasizes the need for negotiations to prevent further years of war, death, and destruction.
➡ The writer is questioning why efforts to establish peace are seen as negative, especially when it involves former President Trump. They express confusion over why there’s resistance to peace and suggest that everyone should prioritize the interests of the United States. Using an analogy of children fighting over toys, the writer emphasizes the importance of a ceasefire before negotiating peace, arguing that it’s impossible to negotiate while conflict is ongoing. They conclude by urging for peace and an end to unnecessary conflict.

Let’s talk about Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio is saying that we need to get Ukraine back to the table, but it won’t be easy. Make sure y’all hit a like for the algorithm, subscribe to the channel and turn on your notifications. Let’s see what Marco Rubio has to say. Bringing the Secretary of State Marco. I respect Marco Rubio a lot. I think that he’s very, very intelligent. Rubio, Mr. Secretary, thank you for joining us this morning. Has there been any contact with President Zelensky since Friday? Well, I haven’t had any contact with him since Friday.

We have plenty of contacts with him, plenty. I mean, he met in the last 10 days. He’s met with the Secretary of Commerce. He spoke to the President on the phone, met with the Secretary of Commerce, met with me, met with the Vice President, met with our special envoy, and then was invited and came over on, well, invited. You know, he wanted to come over on Friday to sign this commercial deal. It didn’t happen. So there’s been plenty of contact with him. I’ve talked to the Foreign Minister several times, not since then, and we’ll see moving forward.

I think the last line in the President’s Truth Social Post is the one to focus in on, and that is we’ll be ready to re-engage when they’re ready to make peace, which is clearly what the President’s goal is here. He’s trying to get Russia to the table to bring about, to see if there’s a way to bring about an end to this conflict. That’s his goal. That’s his only goal. That’s his centralized focus. And, you know, hopefully we’ll get to a point where that’s possible. The British Prime Minister said this morning that the United Kingdom and France are working on a peace plan with Ukraine to present to the U.S.

Do you know where things stand with that plan? No, I mean, I’ve talked to both of the foreign ministers of France and the UK yesterday, and I explained to them sort of the events leading up to what you saw on Friday. Look, I think what’s really important here is to understand the dynamic. The President is basically saying there’s this horrible war. It’s been going on for three years. It is a bloody stalemate, a meat grinder-type war, and he wants it to end. How does it end? It’s very simple. The only way it ends is if Vladimir Putin comes to a negotiating table, and right now President Trump is the only person on Earth who has any chance whatsoever of bringing him to a table to see what it is he would be willing to end the war on.

Now, maybe their claims or what they want, their demands will be unreasonable. We don’t know, but we have to bring him to the table. You’re not going to bring him to the table if you’re calling him names, if you’re being antagonistic. That’s just the President’s instincts from years and years and years of putting together deals as someone who’s in business. And that’s the only way. Let me just stop you there for one second. Why is there a war with no end in sight? Wait, didn’t George Stappanopoulos get sued? Didn’t he cost ABC a whole bunch of money before? Why is he interrupting and why is he even a person that’s conducting his interview? Why is George Stappanopoulos in the way in interrupting Marco Rubio while he’s actually explaining to you, sir, respectfully, that the only person that has a relationship inside of the United States of America that could stop this war because he has built a relationship over time and communicated with Putin is Trump.

Now we want to be able to get him back to the table, but we can’t get him back to the table, which you call on him names and making a problem and creating an issue. Unless Ukraine is ready to actually stop this war. How am I going to even bring this guy to the table to where we not insulting him? George Hush, Hush. Is it okay to call President Zelensky? Why is it okay to call President Zelensky a dictator, but not as you say, call Vladimir Putin names? Listen, we’ve spent three years calling Vladimir Putin names.

That’s not the point that we’re at now is we’re trying to get the George literally just ask that question of all of the intelligent questions that we could have asked of all of the questions that we could have asked George respectfully. We could have asked Mark. You got Marco Rubio on ABC to ask him anything, anything that you want. And the thing that you decided to interrupt the conversation with is, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Why is it okay not to call Putin names? Come on, man. We got to get these geysers out.

Y’all wondering why ABC, MSNBC, CNN is suffering. This is why. Look at this line of questioning and to a table, the Russians and I’ve said from the very beginning, maybe they don’t want to deal either. We don’t know, but we haven’t talked to them in three years, but maybe they do. The point is, do we want to make, I would ask everybody this. If there are no negotiations, what is the alternative? Another four years of war, another three years of war in which the United States and Europe continues to pour billions of dollars into a war in Ukraine.

Is that the alternative? I’ve asked every foreign minister I meet with, tell me your idea of how this turns out. Most don’t have a plan. A few have said, well, let’s give them another year of fighting a year from now, a year later, another year of death, another year of destruction. Then maybe Putin will be ready to negotiate at that point. That doesn’t sound like a good plan to me. And it certainly is not a plan the president’s on board with. It’s not just about getting people to the table. It’s about keeping agreements that are made.

And that was one of the points the president was making in the Oval Office on Friday is that Vladimir Putin has not kept the agreements that were made in the past. Wasn’t he right about that? But what is moving forward is the question, not the past. No one 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 cranking out weapons now at a war footing pace.

And we need to figure out, is there a 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? And as I said, we don’t know what those are because we haven’t talked to them in three years.

That’s the singular goal here is to probably bring about an end of this conflict. And it begins by getting them to the table. Ultimately, like any truce, like any peace agreement anywhere in the world, those things will have to be enforced. They’ll have to be enduring. There have to be safeguards put in place. Everybody understands that. But it begins with the first step, and that is engaging them to see if it’s even possible. Because if it’s not possible, then what we’re looking at is a protracted stalemate with thousands of people dying, millions of dollars pouring in, and more death and destruction.

And that’s not something the president wants to be a part of. He’s made it very clear. Aren’t those talks feasible only if the United States is willing to also provide security guarantees to Ukraine? That was the point the president. We’re not providing no more guarantees in the Oval Office. Well, the security guarantees, which I actually like to call deterrence, is all contingent upon there being a peace. Everybody’s saying security guarantees to secure the peace. You first have to have a peace. We don’t even know if the peace is possible. And this was understood by the Ukrainians.

It was explained to them repeatedly. And that is, here’s our strategy. We’re trying to get Putin to a negotiating table. Everyone knows the history here, the back and forth. We understand that. We all understand that. But the question now is, can we get them to a table to negotiate? That’s our goal. Don’t do anything to disrupt that. And that’s what Zelensky did, unfortunately, is he found every opportunity to try to Ukraine-splain on every issue. Then he confronts the vice president. When the vice president says the goal here is diplomacy, he immediately jumps in and challenges the vice president.

Well, what kind of diplomacy? We all understand that Putin is not going to be an easy negotiator in this regard. We all get that. But we have to start the process to see if something is even possible. And I honestly am puzzled. I just don’t understand. The Biden administration berated Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israelis, put all kinds of conditions and pressure on them to try to get a ceasefire. In this particular case, we’ve been nice by comparison. And all we’re trying to do here is figure out whether a peace is possible. All these other things that people keep bringing up, that’ll have to be a part of a negotiation.

Right now, there is no negotiation. Shouldn’t we at least try to see if there is a way to end this war in a way that’s acceptable to both sides and is enduring and sustainable? How is that a bad thing? I really am puzzled why anyone thinks that trying to be a peacemaker is a bad thing. It’s only a bad thing when it’s Donald Trump trying to do it. When it’s President Trump, it’s absurd to me. And Marco Rubio hit the nail on the head, and I’m glad that he’s able to clearly communicate. And he’s very respected.

I respect Marco Rubio. I don’t know anybody that doesn’t respect Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio is absolutely right. Why is somebody making it difficult for peace? Now, if we was doing this on the other side, and we were saying, hey, man, listen, we want to go to war. We want to go to war. We want to go to war. Everybody, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. But everybody is not advocating for peace. Why are we, are we, are we war hungry? Are we, I don’t understand. What do you mean you stand with Ukraine? You’re supposed to be standing with the United States of America.

Nobody should be standing with anybody that’s not inside of the United States of America. And what’s best for the interests of the world, what’s best for Ukraine, is what’s best for America, which is peace. It does not benefit us to continue to fight a never ending war for the next 10 years and to see more lives get lost every single day for what? Because you started it first. Man, let me tell you something. When you’re dealing with children, because that’s basically what you’re dealing with was dealing with Zelensky. When you’re dealing with a child, you know what the first thing that they say is, hey, stop fighting.

Don’t hit him. What are you doing? Get your butt over here. Why would you do that? He hit me first. Now, do you guys actually look at that as a reasonable or decent excuse why they should still be able to keep fighting and cracking each other’s heads? No. Man, you go sit down over there. You get your life together, bro. What you doing, man? Get over there. Why? And then you start to deal with the consequences. Then you get back down to the little bit. But if you don’t have a ceasefire, you don’t negotiate peace between two children that ultimately still have to hang out with each other.

They’re going to grow up with each other. They’re still going to be next to each other. Every single day, they’re going to be tied to each other through birth. You don’t let them keep fighting while negotiating the peace aspect of it. You get a ceasefire, you stop the fighting. And then once you stop the fighting, you go and you talk to him and you say, hey, listen. What happened? He took my toy. And you actually get on both of them. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Why are you putting your hands on other people’s stuff? Did not tell you not to put your hands on other people’s stuff.

Where my belt at? You give him a whooping. So you don’t know how to control yourself. Once he goes out the room, you deal with the other one. Oh, okay. So, bro, why are you tripping? So you decided that you wanted to jump off the bridge. Now look at you. You got to go to school with a black eye because he beat the brakes off of you because you couldn’t think for yourself. You couldn’t think. You got to learn how to think through it. Was the toy that important? And why you ain’t sharing anyway, you got 30 toys over there.

You know, you know, he came over here from his step mama. You know, he you step baby daddy. You know, he ain’t got nothing. You got everything over there. So you can’t share your toys all of a sudden. You got every toy. I bought you all of these toys and you don’t know how to share. You know, he ain’t got nothing. He’s sitting, he’s sleeping on a brown paper bag in a cardboard box because his mother decided that she wanted to leave her family. And now she over here. And so she brought her little nephew over here.

And now y’all getting into a fight. You know, he can fight good. The reason that he can fight good is because his mama got him homeless all the time. Right. We got to be we got to be nice. Share your toys, bro. Give him a toy. You don’t even you don’t even like that toy. You don’t need you. You said that you was about to take that to Goodwill and he was about to throw it away. Now you don’t want to share your toy. See, when you have a when you have a ceasefire, is what I’m trying to explain to you guys.

And this is why I like to break it down from a C students perspective. Because a lot of times that we we think about this too far out. Let’s break it down in a way that we can all consume it. When you have children and they are fighting. Right. And before you get to solve for the problem, you have to stop the fighting. That is what a ceasefire is. Then you can negotiate the terms of peace. You can’t negotiate it while they’re over there slapping each other in the head with toys. It’s a very simple concept.

Very simple concept. You said you were a stepbrother. So you know, you already know that if you were a stepbrother then ATL flippers, ATL flippers, if you were a stepbrother, then you know that it was very difficult to get your brother’s father to buy both of your toys because mama always wanted y’all to have equal. But that’s not you, not his son. And his father may have been a little bit richer than your father or your father only came over when he got out of jail, right? Not saying that this is your situation, but this could possibly be a situation, right? And so mama always said, nah, if you’re going to bring bring money over here, if you’re going to bring something over here, then bring something for both of the kids.

Don’t bring it. He was like, that ain’t my son. That ain’t my son. I don’t want to bring something for him too. I only want to bring something for my son. And then you got mad because he got a PS PS3 or PS2 at the time, and now you want to fight. And now somebody got to break it up because mama keep on demanding unreasonable things and having children with more than one man. That’s why we got to keep the family. That’s why we got to keep the family together. You know, you know, we got to keep the family together.

Hopefully y’all understand that analogy so you can better understand why we need to have peace. And Wyless and Linsky need to get on board because we not sharing our toys no more. No more. [tr:trw].

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