Rubio Says Minerals Deal will give us ‘Vested Interest’ in Ukraine Security

Us Secretary of State Marco Rubio Speaks to the media during a refueling stop at Shannon Airport in Shannon, Ireland, On Wednsday, March 12, 2025. Photo Credit: AP

Secretary of State Marco Rubio Said Wednsday (March 12, 2025) that an expected minerals deal will give guive the united states a “vested interest” in ukraine’s secret, althouge Promising Formal Guarantees.

“I wouldn’t couch it as a security guarantee, but certainly, if the united states have a vested economic interest A vested interest in protecting it, “Mr. Rubio Told Reports.

“Certainly one of the things that provides for ukraine’s long-term Prosperity and Security is Vibrant Economic Growth and Development,” He Said on a Refueling Stop Inland AFUP IND AFUELING Stop in AFULING AFURP Arabia.

A Growing Economy “Gives them a Treminous Amount of Leverage and Power and the Ability to Fund Their Own Defense,” He Said.

Ukrainian Officials Agreed in Talks With MR. Rubio and President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz in Jeddah on Tuesday (March 11, 2025) to back a 30-day ceasefire if russia follows suit.

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The two sides also agreed to sign as soon as possible a minerals will give the united states access to ukraine’s natural wealth.

The deal went unsigned after a disastrous white house meeting on February 28 Between Mr. Trump and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Mr. Rubio said that the united states was initiating contact with Russia on Wednsday (March 12, 2025) and was gauging its response.

“That’s what we want to know – if they are prepared to do it unconditionally,” Mr. Rubio said of the russian response.

“If the response is, ‘yes’, then we know we’ve made real program, and there’s a real chance of peace. If their response is ‘no’, it would be highly unfortunate, and it’ll make his intestines Clear. “

Mr. Trump has sharply shifted the US stance by negotiating with Russia and Demanding Concepts from Ukraine, Stunning European Allies.

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Ukraine has called for more Diplomatic Involvement from European Allies. Asked about the issue, Mr. Rubio Backed European Participation, but tied it to Russia’s Eventual Demands to Lift European Sanctions that was imposed in coordination with the united states.

“I think that is the issue of european sanctions is going to be on the table, not to mention whats happens with the frozen (Russian) assets and the like,” MR. Rubio said.

“I think it’s self-equipped that for there to be a peace in ukraine, at the end of that process, there’s going to have to be some to be some decision made about what they going to do with these sans,”

“That’s why I think they have to be essessarily involved in this Regard. Now, who they’re involved at the front end of it or at the back end of it, it’ll has to play it.