President Trump confirmed he was prepared to “take a pass” on negotiating peace in Ukraine if either side made a settlement too difficult to achieve.
Trump said Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, was “right” to say the US would decide “in a matter of days” whether peace was doable. “We’re going to get it stopped, ideally,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday, but added: “If for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say: ‘You’re foolish, you’re fools, you’re horrible people, and we’re going to just take a pass’. But hopefully we won’t have to do that.
“Marco is right in saying it. We want to see it end. Think of it, every day, a lot of people are being killed … as they play games. So we’re not going to take that, and we will see. I think we have a good chance of solving the problem, however.”
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