Marco Rubio

So I don't think anyone can claim to be winning it.

I think that both sides are suffering tremendous damage, and we'd like to see the war come to an end.

It's a senseless war.

In our view, the president believes that very deeply.

He believes the war would have never happened had he been president at the time.

So we're doing two things.

Obviously, we continue.

Look, we don't

We don't provide arms to Russia.

We provide arms to Ukraine.

We don't sanction Ukraine.

We sanction Russia.

But at the same time, we find ourselves in a unique position of serving as probably the only nation on earth that can bring the two sides to discuss the potential for ending this war on negotiated terms.

And it's an obligation we won't walk away from because we think it's a very unique one to have.

It may not come to fruition, unfortunately.

I hope it does.

And I think there are days when I feel more optimistic about it than others.

But we're going to keep trying because that is, in the end, this war will not be solved militarily.

It will be, in the end, it will come to a negotiated settlement.

We'd like to see that happen as soon as possible.