President Donald Trump claims he has new information that leads him to believe Russia cannot win the Ukraine war and Ukraine can reclaim ALL the territory it lost, including the Crimea. His shift is echoed by Vice President JD Vance and Mark Rubio, both of whom challenge Russia’s power claims based on its performance so far.
Trump wrote, “After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form.” The Russians have responded through a spokesperson, who said, “(the) idea Ukraine can recapture something is, from our point of view, mistaken.”
Vance, Rubio Press Trump’s New Hard Line Against Russia’s War Effort– www.rferl.org
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US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio pressed President Donald Trump’s new, tougher public line against Russia, charging that Moscow isn’t doing enough to end the war and stop the killing in Ukraine.
Vance on September 24 said Trump “doesn’t feel like they’re putting enough on the table to end the war…If the Russians refuse to negotiate in good faith, I think it’s going to be very, very bad for their country.”
Rubio, meanwhile, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, reiterating Trump’s “call for the killing to stop and the need for Moscow to take meaningful steps toward a durable resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war.”
In response, Lavrov claimed there was a “mutual interest in finding peaceful solutions” to the war in Ukraine.
But he reiterated Moscow’s need to “eliminate the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict.” That is Kremlin talk for putting limits on Ukraine’s military strength and a commitment not to join NATO, among a litany of other historical grievances — most of which are unacceptable to Kyiv and the West.