Rubio Refuses To Name Concessions Asked Of Russia

“You can’t have a peace agreement unless both sides give and get. You can’t a peace agreements unless both sides make concessions. That’s a fact. That’s true in virtually any negotiation. If not, it’s just called surrender. And neither side is going to surrender. So both sides are going to have to make concessions. So of course concessions were asked.

“But what utility would there be of me going on a program and tell you we wagged our finger at Putin and told him you must do this and you must that? It’s only going to make it harder and less likely that they’re going to agree of these things. So these negotiations, as much as everyone would love it to be a live pay-per-view event, these discussions only work best when they are conducted privately in serious negotiations.

“People who have to go back and respond to constituencies, because even authoritarian governments have constituencies they have to respond to, people have to back and defend these agreements that they make, and figure out a way to explain them to people.

“So, we need to create space for concessions to be made, but of course, concessions were asked.” – Marco Rubio, raging after being asked for specifics about Trump asking Russia to make concessions.

Rubio repeatedly won’t name a single specific concession that Russia will have to give up as part of a peace deal, then pivots to talking about land that Ukraine will have to give up pic.twitter.com/lKADhYRj5B

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 17, 2025