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** Russia and Ukraine: Why Are We Negotiating with Evil? ([link removed])
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by Gordon G. Chang • August 20, 2025 at 5:00 am
* Rubio, talking about the war in Ukraine, completely missed the fundamental issue: Should the United States be trying to reach a deal in the first place?
* The answer is no: The U.S. should not be trying to broker any settlement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a mass-murdering, genocide-committing aggressor.
* No one wants to see more people die, but trying to end this war by agreement will ultimately make the world less safe.
* Did the U.S. try to reach a "deal" with the Third Reich? How about Imperial Japan?
* A "deal" with aggressors always opens the door to more aggression.
* "We don't negotiate with evil; we defeat it." — Vice President Dick Cheney, reportedly spoken in 2003.

The U.S. should not be trying to broker any settlement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a mass-murdering, genocide-committing aggressor. Pictured: US President Donald Trump greets Putin on the tarmac at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

"The only way to reach a deal on anything, whether it's in business or in politics or in geopolitics, the only way to reach a deal is for each side to get something and each side to give something," Secretary of State Marco Rubio told NBC's Kristen Welker on Meet the Press on August 17.

Rubio, talking about the war in Ukraine, completely missed the fundamental issue: Should the United States be trying to reach a deal in the first place?

The answer is no: The U.S. should not be trying to broker any settlement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a mass-murdering, genocide-committing aggressor.

Rubio should heed his own words. "This guy lies, habitually lies," the then senator said in March 2022 about the Russian leader.

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