Marco Rubio, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, argued Wednesday during his Senate confirmation hearing that the Russia-Ukraine war “should be brought to an end” — and said that neither side can achieve ultimate victory.
The Florida GOP senator outlined the incoming Trump administration’s most comprehensive view yet of the nearly three-year-old conflict, telling his colleagues that “there is no way Russia takes all of Ukraine.”
However, the 53-year-old added before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, it is “also unrealistic to believe that somehow, a nation the size of Ukraine — no matter how incompetent and no matter how much damage the Russian Federation has suffered as a result of this invasion — there’s no way Ukraine is also going to push these people all the way back to where they were on the eve of the invasion, just given the size dynamic.”
As a result, Rubio said, the US needs to be “realistic” and, unlike the Biden administration, have an “end goal” in mind for the fighting.
He added that giving Ukraine American aid “as long as it takes,” which has been President Biden’s position, is not “realistic or prudent.”
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