They're coming here tomorrow because they're supposed to come here tomorrow. We invited them to come.
Marco Rubio
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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
But, ultimately, if – if Vladimir Putin is going to be offered land that he has not seized yet, but negotiates his way into, doesn't this set a dangerous precedent that the United States now accepts this concept that it is OK to seize land…
Yes, I mean, we've repeatedly raised that issue on – in every forum possible.
If peace is not going to be possible here, and this is just going to continue on as a war, people will continue to die by the thousands.
If there aren't concessions, if one side gets everything they want, that's called surrender. That's called the end of the war through surrender.
I don’t think new sanctions on Russia are going to force them to accept ceasefire.
Children should be returned to their families. We- on that position, I don't think there's any ambiguity on our side.
The president has that option to then come in and impose new sanctions. But if he did this now – the moment the president puts those additional sanctions, that's the end of the talks.
That's just the way it is. And, I mean, the sooner we accept that, that's the reality.
In order for there to be a peace deal – this is just a fact. We may not like it, it may not be pleasant, it may be distasteful, but in order for there to be an end of the war, there are things Russia wants that it cannot get, and there are…
Both sides are going to have to give up something in order to get to the table in order to make this happen. That's – that's just the way it is.





