Watch a different Marco Rubio hail US vow to defend Ukraine after it surrendered its nuclear weapons

Watch a different Marco Rubio hail US vow to defend Ukraine after it surrendered its nuclear weapons

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Story by Mary Papenfuss

04/03/2025

 

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the Trump administration should do just about anything to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table to reach a deal on the Ukraine War — even though Putin has reportedly already been talking to Donald Trump for weeks without Ukraine.

마르코 루비오 국무장관은 트럼프 행정부가 블라디미르 푸틴 러시아 대통령을 우크라이나 전쟁에 대한 협상 테이블로 끌어내기 위해 무엇이든 해야 한다고 말했다 - 푸틴 대통령은 이미 우크라이나 없이 몇 주 동안 도널드 트럼프와 대화를 나눴다고 한다.

 

 

Now the Trump administration has halted military aid to Ukraine, and Rubio has called for an apology from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after a heated While House clash Friday during which Zelensky was berated by Trump.

Just over a decade ago Rubio spoke passionately about America’s moral imperative to defend Ukraine against aggression after the nation gave up up its nuclear stockpile following the fall of the Soviet Union.

At the time of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine had the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. The nation surrendered its nuclear warheads as the U.S., Britain and Russia agreed in the Budapest Memorandum to protect the country against aggression, which Russian President Vladimir Putin

clearly violated when he ordered the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

이제 트럼프 행정부는 우크라이나에 대한 군사 원조를 중단했고, 루비오는 젤렌스키가 트럼프에게 질타를 받은 금요일 하원 충돌이 있은 후 볼로디미르 젤렌스키 우크라이나 대통령에게 사과를 요구했다.

불과 10여 년 전, 루비오는 소련 붕괴 이후 우크라이나가 핵무기 비축량을 포기한 후 우크라이나를 침략으로부터 방어해야 하는 미국의 도덕적 의무에 대해 열정적으로 말했다.

1991년 우크라이나가 소련으로부터 독립할 당시 우크라이나는 세계에서 세 번째로 큰 핵무기를 보유하고 있었습니다. 미국, 영국, 러시아가 부다페스트 각서에서 블라디미르 푸틴 러시아 대통령이 2022년 우크라이나 침공을 명령했을 때 명백히 위반한 침략으로부터 우크라이나를 보호하기로 합의함에 따라 우크라이나는 핵탄두를 포기했습니다.

 

Marco Rubio responds to Trump/Zelensky meeting

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But Russia also violated the memo in early 2014 when it invaded the Crimean Peninsula, which was part of Ukraine, and annexed it. The Western failure that time to defend a country that had voluntarily given up it nuclear arsenal triggered an incensed Rubio, whose angry comments are captured in the video below

 

 

“What kind of lesson do you think this instance sends” to the people of Ukraine? asked a frustrated Rubio. “I think the message being sent to many nations around the world is perhaps we can no longer count on the security promises of the free world.”

On Sunday Rubio was angry again as he defended the Trump administration’s cooperation with ... Russia.

“The only thing that matters is getting Putin to negotiate,” a testy Rubio told host George Stephanopoulos Sunday on ABC’s This Week.

“The only way it ends is if Vladimir Putin comes to a negotiating table. And right now President Trump is the only person on Earth who has any chance whatsoever of bringing him to a table to see what it is he would be willing to end the war on,” said Rubio.

On Monday Trump halted military aid to Ukraine and Vice President JD Vance said that only the U.S. and Russia are now in peace talks, which do not involve the nation Russia invaded.

 

 

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