You don't really know what was said to Z. I don't find it hard to believe, at all, that Democrats are actively working to undermine any peace agreement with Ukraine.
I agree and that's why I said the US would guarantee NATO would not accept Ukraine as a member.
Too completely different scenarios imo. I would be absolutely uncomfortable with supporting Taiwan. Officially Taiwan is recognized as part of the People's Republic. In essence, you can't invade your own sovereign. Ukraine was a sovereign nation and on Europes doorstep. Our interests are far less threatened in Taiwan case unless you are arguing over chips.
Who knows if his position changed or not. He can voice disagreements privately when he has them, or resign.
Yes, if the US won't supply money to a country on the other side of the world, what does that tell China about our willingness to sacrifice lives and money to defend another country on the other side of the world.
If anything like that happened during the meeting, the Republican Senators in that same meeting would have come forward and said that it happened. They didn't.
I don't know where you get off with your last sentence. What, exactly, is the President's vision? To make a minerals deal in disputed territory? How can Ukraine make a deal in areas Russia occupies?
My entire military career we had active plans to defend Taiwan. They were continually modified as conditions changed, but the intent was always to defend Taiwan. My guess is that hasn't changed.
And then we get a world arms race. Americans like to complain about other country's depending on us, but those same countries were attacking America when they had strong militaries.
Yeah, but they don't spread it as enthusiastically as Mas.
I’m sure there are contingency plans and war games for all manner of potential conflicts.
If it did, he didn't express them prior to becoming SoS.
We don’t know what a final peace deal looks like. We can be sure that Rubio has a much better idea than chest thumpers on a message board.
I did trust Trump until I saw that display last Friday. That was like high school bullies beating up on a frail kid.
According to Ukraine:
And he didn't meet with anyone else? I don't know his calendar.
I watched the entire thing too, and this was JD Vance's fault. He instigated the entire thing and Zelenskyy could hardly get a word in edgewise from that point on. The VP is supposed to sit there and stay quiet unless the President directly asks him something. This meeting was between the leaders of Ukraine and the United States. The underlings are there as observers and for the private part of the event. However, JD jumped in unasked and was belligerent towards Zelenskyy. Nothing Zelenskyy said or did warranted that. Nothing. Then the President seemed to get irritated when Zelenskky said something negative about Putin and reacted as if he felt the need to defend Putin. That was strange. To the best of my recollection we've never had a shitshow like this at these types of events. It's because this isn't the way the public part of diplomacy is supposed to happen. All the shitshow part of that event could have happened in private IF it needed to happen at all (I don't believe it did). It's clear at this point that those that are blaming Zelenskky for this shitshow are a minority in this country and world-wide. This is a huge embarrassment in my humble opinion.
Maybe you should not agree to terms and then on live tv decide you are not going to sign the agreement. Also you should understand that if there are American citizens in Ukraine which there will be, America will be there to help protect them and their interests.A student I taught in one of my last international classes in my last active-duty assignment was a Ukranian officer. She posted this on Facebook yesterday:
No doubt Ukrainians would see it this way. This is creating a lot of doubt about our resolve to support our allies and partners as we have since WWII. This isn't the kind of foreign policy our country should engage in.
That's OK - I know I'm right!
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