Rubio warns Russia that Trump’s patience ‘is not infinite’
At a U.N. Security Council meeting on Ukraine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said of Trump’s options for penalizing Russia, there would “come a moment in which we will have to conclude that perhaps there is no interest in a peaceful resolution.”
“And then the president has before him real options, which he intends to pursue, as he has made clear today in some of the messages he has put out,” Rubio said.
The secretary also argued that Trump has shown “extraordinary patience” by not yet levying sanctions against Moscow “in the hopes of having a breakthrough.”

“He's very committed to peace, but his patience is not infinite, and as he has said repeatedly, he has before him the opportunity and the options of imposing additional economic costs on the Russian Federation, if necessary, in order to bring this to an end,” Rubio said. “He also has before him the option, as he has already chosen to do in some circumstances, to sell defensive weaponry and potentially offensive weaponry so that Ukraine can defend itself from this assault by purchasing that weaponry.”
He concluded: “This war needs to end, but if it does not, if there is no path to peace in the short-term, then the United States and President Donald J. Trump will take the steps necessary to impose costs for continued aggression.”
Earlier in his remarks, Rubio also assessed that the war had entered “a period of what appears to be potential even escalation,” citing a historically high number of strikes in recent days as well as incursions by Russian drones and planes into neighboring airspace.
-ABC News’ Shannon Kingston







