Ukraine distracting West from 'more serious' issues - Rubio -- RT World News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : However, the EU and UK imposed new sanctions on Russia on Tuesday, escalating their campaign to pressure Moscow while ramping up support for Kiev.
44% : The top US diplomat has urged lawmakers to focus on a potential "much more cataclysmic confrontation in the Indo-Pacific" US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended President Donald Trump's foreign policies and priorities, including his reluctance to join the EU and UK in imposing further sanctions on Moscow or increasing arms supplies to Kiev.
42% : Trump said he believes Putin is interested in ending the conflict and warned that additional economic pressure could obstruct US mediation efforts.
28% : Trump argued that Washington should never have intervened in Ukraine, suggesting that Kiev would be "better off" if the conflict with Moscow had remained a "European situation.
26% : Washington has previously signaled that it plans to shift its military focus to Asia, while Trump has repeatedly urged the EU to take the lead in its own defense and bear the primary responsibility for future security guarantees to Kiev.
23% : Following his lengthy phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, Trump told journalists that the US does not want to impose additional sanctions on Russia "because there's a chance" of progress toward a settlement of the Ukraine conflict.

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