WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Breitbart News that he would call for Ukrainian nuclear weapons in place of NATO membership as part of peace talks with Russia “a serious offer” for Ukrainian President Voldymir Zelensky He said that wasn't.
“Well, I don't think that's what they'd think is a serious offer, and I think equipping nuclear weapons is the solution to the problem,” Rubio was recently asked about Zelensky's comments about Zelensky. He told Breitbart News. If Ukraine does not participate in NATO.
Rubio sat for a lengthy on-camera interview with Breitbart news on Monday evening at the State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. In his first release on Monday evening, Rubio discussed a duel resolution at the UN about the Russian war in Ukraine. In this work, Rubio goes in more detail on each side and responds to critics from the early stages of the peace process.
“I haven't heard him [Zelensky] Say that, and if he's saying it, I don't think it's a realistic demand,” Rubio continued. “We don't think that will solve their problems, not less nuclear-armed nations, not more. I think he has a fundamental challenge, but that's fine. Permanent. How can we reach the end of a conflict? It is going to be implemented and it will suddenly lead to a new war in a year, two or three years? It must be discussed in negotiations. It's like it won't be. But I don't think nuclear weapons are the answer to that.”
Zelensky recently came up with the idea of a nuclear-armed Ukrainian in several different public forums, including a recent interview with Piers Morgan in early February.
“Give me your nuclear weapon back,” Zelensky told Morgan while speaking through an interpreter. As Politics It's attracting attention In this article about Zelensky's interview, Ukraine had inherited nuclear weapons after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but gave up in 1994 in exchange for security guarantees from Russians, Americans and British people.
But obviously, Rubio has ruled it as a serious possibility for Ukraine's future in the postwar world.
Rubio also told Breitbart News that when it comes to Russians, he would “be part of the conversation” with them as Russian President Vladimir Putin put pressure on them to reverse the acquisition of Western companies. GlavProduct, a Russian canned food company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of American company Universal Beverages, was effectively seized by the Russian government during the decline of former President Joe Biden's administration in October. Kamala Harris in the election. Previous Breitbart news articles on this cited the State Department on the background that rips the Putin administration for this move, but these comments from Rubio are the first record-breaking statements from the Trump administration on this front. This is a comment.
“Well, it's going to be part of the conversation,” Rubio told Breitbart News. “As part of this, it's step 2 of this process. Step 1 is to make the embassy work. Our embassy in Moscow barely works at this point. We're working there. There are some amazing people there, but the Russians miserable their lives so they can't function, so we had to straighten it. At the worst of the Cold War, the worst of the Cold War. We remind everyone that in the era of the Soviet Union and the US still had a relationship. We still spoke. I am grateful for what we did. [Cuban] For example, the missile crisis. Ultimately, if we had not maintained that communication, the Cold War would not have theoretically ended, or it would not have ended with something as terrifying as World War I. That's step 1. Step 2 is okay, we invite them to join in and say, “It's okay, are you guys taking serious effort to finish this? Let's sit and talk about it.” Step 3 is the conflict If we can end it, I think it would be what US-Russia relations will look like in the 21st century. Is there anything geopolitical and even economically we can tackle together? The president spoke about it. There will be an opportunity to cooperate, and obviously it will involve talking not only about Europeans, the US, or anything seized Russian assets, but also about damaged American companies. It will be part of a broader conversation about how to reset our relationship. We're not at that step yet, and I don't want to go any further than myself. It's impossible and we can't really talk about them or even fix them until we bring this war to at least some kind of permanent ceasefire, and hopefully to a permanent end. . ”
Rubio also pushed back critics who said the Trump administration was giving Putin too much. When these peace process talks begin, they call them “hypocritical.” Reaction to Hamas after the terrorist attack on October 7th. Rubio said Trump is confident that peace is possible in Ukraine without being blocked by critics.
“First of all, I think it's hypocritical. By the way, these are the same people and they claimed after October 7th when these savages came in and did what they did in Israel. “These are the same people who called for a ceasefire, ended hostilities and allowed Hamas to survive, while they said, “Let's continue the war in Ukraine. And more. Let's continue for years. We will continue to subsidize it with billions of dollars of lives and thousands of lives being destroyed. Destroy the country.' So it's hypocrisy. And at the same time, I think that in American history, the president, usually in search of peace, was praised except for Trump. Meanwhile, President Trump is being attacked by these outlets because he wants to seek peace. Negotiations, and we are not going to negotiate through the media, but we need to give and take in negotiations to end war and conflict. Each side has to give up something, and they have to give something. Everyone knows that. It is a mature foreign policy. So we're not paying much attention to criticism. Because frankly, no matter what President Trump does for some of those voices, they're going to criticize him. But they've been doing it for eight years now and it didn't work. ”
More will be released soon from an interview with Rubio's Breitbart News.
