{"id":1458,"date":"2025-03-01T14:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T14:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2025-03-01T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T14:28:35","slug":"eu-wants-another-year-of-war-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/?p=1458","title":{"rendered":"EU wants another year of war \u2013 Rubio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Richard Sanders<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some EU countries would favor the conflict between Russia and Ukraine dragging on longer with the idea of weakening Moscow, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has charged, stressing that Washington\u2019s goal is to end the hostilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rubio’s comments came after a heated meeting between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky on Friday, which triggered accusations from American officials that the Ukrainian leader showed \u201cdisrespect\u201d<\/em> and ingratitude towards the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with CNN on Friday, Rubio emphasized that Washington is seeking peace for Ukraine, adding that if there\u2019s even a 1% chance of that happening, it \u201cneeds to be explored.\u201d<\/em> He also suggested that some of his EU counterparts are not exactly on board with this approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He cited an unnamed European foreign minister as saying that the EU\u2019s plan is to allow \u201cthe war go\u2026 on for another year and at that point Russia will feel so weakened that they\u2019ll beg for peace.\u201d<\/em> Rubio criticized this approach, stating, \u201cThat\u2019s another year of killing, another year of dying, another year of destruction, and by the way, not a very realistic plan in my point of view.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Rubio has also called on Zelensky to apologize for what he called an \u201cantagonistic\u201d<\/em> approach during the meeting, rebuking him for his stance on an agreement granting the US rights to Ukraine\u2019s natural resources, which was set to be signed at the White House but ended up in limbo due to the spat that ensued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Zelensky \u2013 who urged the US to continue military support for Ukraine while warning that the failure to do so would backfire \u2013 was heavily criticized by Trump administration officials and Republicans, many EU leaders rallied to his support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU Commission, praised Zelensky\u2019s \u201cdignity\u201d<\/em> and reassured him that he is \u201cnever alone.\u201d<\/em> Friedrich Merz, Germany\u2019s presumed future chancellor, said that \u201cwe must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Kaja Kallas, the EU\u2019s top diplomat, went even further, issuing a not-so-veiled rebuke to Trump. \u201cWe stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the aggressor\u2026 Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It\u2019s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas Russia has praised the Trump administration for its willingness to find ways to resolve the Ukraine conflict, including examining its root causes, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has denounced the EU for what he described as a desire to further escalate the hostilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Sanders Some EU countries would favor the conflict between Russia and Ukraine dragging on longer with the idea of weakening Moscow, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has charged, stressing that Washington\u2019s goal is to end the hostilities. Rubio’s comments came after a heated meeting between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky on Friday,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}