Sometimes it pays to remind what Marco Rubio said back in February, “Ukraine is a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia.” From that context the remarks from SSCI Vice-Chair, Senator Mark Warner, make sense.
Warner appears on ABC News ‘This Week’ to denounce the peace proposal now being negotiated in Geneva, Switzerland between Secretary Rubio and the Ukrainian delegation. Senator Warner makes it clear he will not accept the end to conflict in Ukraine. Video and Transcript Below:
[TRANSCRIPT] – Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner joins me now.
Good to see you this morning, Senator.
SEN. MARK WARNER (D-VA), INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE VICE CHAIR: Good morning, Martha.
RADDATZ: What is your reaction to this peace proposal that is on the table?
WARNER: My reaction is it’s awful. It would make Neville Chamberlain’s giving in to Hitler outside of World War II looks strong in comparison. The fact that this was almost a series of Russian talking points, would require Ukraine to give the — totality of the Donbas, parts they still control, cut back their military forces going forward, never be able to join NATO.
This would be a complete capitulation. And it’s why I think you’re hearing from Congress, both sides, people pushing back. And, obviously, the Europeans feel like they’ve been totally left high and dry.
MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC “THIS WEEK” CO-ANCHOR: You’ve heard the deadline from President Trump, but then him saying that’s not — there’s room for negotiation here, it seems like. So, what do you think happens after today (ph)?
WARNER: I think what happens — it feels like this was a plan that they took almost entirely from the Russians, did no consultation with Congress, no consultation with the Europeans, obviously didn’t read in Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians, and now they’re getting ferocious pushback. So, one more time, Trump is changing his deadline.
Of course, how he picked Thanksgiving to start with, I have no idea. But now it — even with this — some of this back and forth that it’s not really an American plan, or isn’t an American plan, this is the kind of chaos that, unfortunately, represents so much of the Trump foreign policy.
RADDATZ: So, what do you think President Zelenskyy should do? He’s been through this before. It’s kind of back and forth with this White House. They support you. They pull it back. Do you think all of this, this proposal, which seems to heavily favor Russia, is that just a starting point again?
WARNER: Well, I would hope — I would hope so. Again, the Ukrainians have performed magnificently in the field. And they are reinventing the nature of warfare in terms of use — use of drones. To have this proposal forced upon them, I think as Zelenskyy said, Ukrainian dignity versus giving up a partner, I would hope the president would not be so weak as to try to force this plan on the Ukrainian and our other allies. It would, I think, send not only a horrible signal for Europe, but the person who’s watching this probably the most closely is President Xi in China. And if the Americans are willing to throw in their towel so much like this on Ukraine, you can bet that Xi is thinking, this gives him a clearer path in terms of taking Taiwan.
RADDATZ: But what does Zelenskyy do here? If on Thursday the president says, I’m telling you right now, take what we’ve got on the table and — and there will probably be some changes, or we’re done. What — what does Zelenskyy do, just hope that Europe rises and helps him out?
WARNER: Well, let’s — let’s, again, you have overwhelming support still for Ukraine. The last Ukraine aid package had 80 percent of the Congress. I think the president is seeing this one-sided plan kind of blow up in his face with pushback from the Ukrainians, from the Europeans, from members of Congress of his own party. And my hope is, he’ll come back and be a bit more reasonable.
RADDATZ: I want to turn to Venezuela. We’re all watching that this week. What can you tell us about what you think happens now. We’ve got this massive buildup. We’ve got this massive show of force. We have airline who aren’t — that aren’t flying there because of all the activity and the military activity right now.
Do you expect something more to happen?
WARNER: Well, historically, the United States’ intervention in Central America or South America has not always rolled out the way we’d hope. Maduro was a bad guy, frankly, under Biden. When the Venezuelan people voted in overwhelming numbers, Biden should have put more pressure on getting Maduro out then. It was a mistake.
But now, to have this much armed forces, we have not been briefed on any military action that would have been authorized. He keeps putting the word out that maybe he has authorized, maybe he’s not. We are trying to get the answer on that. But there is a real question. You know, to take this big a fleet, bring our largest aircraft carrier, put them there to further blow up boats that they claim have drugs on them, frankly they could have interdicted some of those boats and shown the world that there were drugs.
In terms of Venezuela, the legal opinion about the drug run — drug running doesn’t touch Venezuela at all. So, the president would have to come back and brief us.
RADDATZ: Trump says he’ll be speaking with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Do you think that is a good idea? And what can you say to him?
WARNER: Because I think the notion that Trump says he’ll talk to anyone, I think that is — I’m not going to critique him on that, if there’s a way to push Maduro out. Remember, our government and fifty other governments, almost all of Western Europe, don’t recognize the Maduro government as legitimate. But it does not feel like there is an organized plan. And coming down again, America only, without any of our other allies in South America or Central America again seems not the right approach to me.
RADDATZ: What could happen short of a show of force? When you have that massive a show of force, it’s almost like, you’re in a position where you have to do something or you might look weak. Short of Maduro saying, OK, I’ll leave, then what does he do?
WARNER: Well, again, that’s the million-dollar question. And as you know, when you’ve got this many forces down there, and you can’t keep the carrier positioned there forever, you also have the chance of an accident happening or a conflict between the Venezuelan air force or some of our planes that might —
RADDATZ: Do you think he wants to go to war with Venezuela? Do you think he wants (INAUDIBLE) —
WARNER: I don’t know. I don’t know. I think he is trying to put outside pressure on Maduro. But by doing it in this kind of America only approach, again without giving any sign to, I think, even his — the Republicans on The Hill what his plans are, I’m not sure is the right way to do foreign policy. You couple this Venezuela misadventure with this desertion of Ukraine and this is not making America safer, and it’s sure not putting America first.
RADDATZ: Thanks very much for joining us, Senator. Always appreciate it.
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These senators, like Denture-Slip Warner, are so lost without their spooks reporting to them. 😂
I noticed a weird tick with the licking the roof of his mouth and the sniffing of the nose as well
He does the lip-licking a lot. It’s his tell when he’s lying; seriously. He is a serial liar.
Snake like tell
With professional grifters, this isn’t a bug. It’s a feature. “Plausible deniability”.
Short chat between Trump and Putin
That puppet crap began as a means to insult Ronald Reagan and another republican majority administration.
I have never seen these puppets do Clinton, Obama or Biden.
Is this the same loser that was the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee under Biden that oversaw the Afghanistan withdrawal? Now he giving advice on Ukraine? These people have no shame.
He is a Democrat. Shame? 🤣😂Like the rest of them he is morally bankrupt.
Ironically, he rode to power on the coat tails of a Republican, JOHN WARNER, using name recognition on a population SO STUPID at the time that they couldn’t tell the difference between the GOP and the DNC. That was the day I knew I had to get out of that ONCE great commonwealth.
Ichabod ! The Glory of the Lord has departed Virginia.
He’s also involved in go8 shenanigans I believe.
It is not likely that Russia could accept this so called “peace plan”. Anything that calls for a “freeze” is transparent to the Russians it is simply a multiple repeated ploy to rearm and organize our nazi themed army to restart our aggression at a later date.
The overwhelming vote of the residents of the four Donbass oblasts voted to reunite with their homeland.
The democratic will of the citizens was incorporated into the RF Constitution. Accepting anything less than full liberation of all the lands is illegal.
The NABU “anti corruption” agency was created by our State Department. In a country that is unsurpassed in corruption its’ purpose is to insure that our CIA and politicians get their cut of the diverted funds. Any entities in Ukraine not playing ball are cut out.
The best case is Trump continues his on and off duplicitous “diplomacy” while Russia finishes demilitarizing the Ukraine Army and takes all lands to the Dnepr, Odessa and Kiev.
Any regime that replaces our little corrupt puppet will have to be neutral. And end the charade of what is left of the pathetic Ukraine project entering NATO.
Hopefully NATO will dissolve, and Trump needs to end all our military presence in Europe and bring them home. Our borders need our military, not Ukraine’s borders.
Worth a watch, 25 minutes, in-depth review of likely outcomes of the 28-point plan.
What?
What sort of dumbassery is that?!
All that heat will deflect attention from the work of the Administration to forge a peace deal where was not otherwise unattainable. Europe seems to want another war, Trump seeks to prevent it.
Is EVERYONE in DC infected with the same viral stupidity?
We are so far from the Representative Republic we were promised that it isn’t funny.
It’s greed. And we weren’t promised a representative republic. We were bequethed it. It’s now up to us to get it back.
So, you apparently don’t need intelligence, to be on, The Intelligence committee.
Braceface Warner is a perfect example of why DC is a total train wreck. How many ways can you say his head is so far up his own a z z it’s a wonder he can breath
The Bond Villain Globalists and the UniParty Deep State have made their position crystal clear. They will not accept peace between Russia and Ukraine under any circumstances. The slaughter must continue! Trillions are at stake!!
At at time of God’s choosing, these murderous, greedy monsters will stand before Lord Jesus for judgement.
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”—Isaiah 5:20
At what point does Trump own the war in Ukraine?
“I can end it, I’ll end it on Day One.”
At some point and time LBJ’s war became Nixon’s war. The longer Trump waits the more he will own it. He’s waited long enough now many are already saying he owns it. I can guarantee you that every single Chickenhawk pushing Trump to continue the war will lay it at his doorstep the moment they can, as they “voted for it before they were against it.”
They know presidents get blamed for bad war outcomes, congress gets to walk away and say “we told you so” no matter what they ever said or do to push the war. Trump needs to just pull the plug and let Biden’s war collapse. Because he’s already kept it going long enough to shoulder some of the blame, quickly moving to all of the blame.
Remember his slogan “Promises made, Promises kept?” He needs to be reminded of why voters elected him. To end it on Day One. Not Day 301.
President Trump is trying to end the war, in case you haven’t noticed. He needs the support of Congress to do it. The President’s opposition would like the killing and hundreds of billions spent to continue, rather than give the President credit for ending it.
If we can’t trust our congress, how is Russia supposed to. Remember the Minsk Accords were just a scheme to rearm Ukraine with no intention of Merkel and her companions to honor the agreement.
I have noticed Trump has broken the promise he made to end our war of aggression against Russia before I voted for him.
As Commander in Chief he could have, and still could order the end of funding the Kiev regime, order all our military and CIA out of Kiev regime occupied lands, end all ISR and intelligence sharing and stop arms flows.
He could also order an audit of all funds, weapon systems and munitions sent. But he will not.
I didn’t vote for an impotent president who chooses to break his word to the voters to curry favor with the same interests who have destroyed our nation.
I guess you haven’t been paying attention to Sundance’s explanation of the deep state at all.
I wonder what from what country these folks are reporting their “thoughts and opinions.”
I do read Sundance’s analysis but do not always agree with his conclusions.
Trump does own the war now and he will be blamed for our latest catastrophic loss of another unnecessary war.
He promised to end our continuing this insanely dangerous foreign aggression on day 1. And as it is another undeclared war he could have.
Short of going nuclear there is absolutely nothing that NATO/US can do to defeat Russia on the eastern steppes, as the Tartars, Swedish Charles XII (ironically in Poltava), Napolean and Hitler (ironically in Kursk) all learned before.
I don’t know. Did Kennedy, Johnson or Nixon own Vietnam. I can give you the press and who they thought it should be blamed on. Who do you specifically listen too?
I personally don’t care how long everyone else is killing each other in Ukraine. It can last forever. Just as long as not a single American is killed there. How about that? That is what this President will not allow. Go with that…….
JFC, he’s got 8 wars ended under his belt already.
Western Europe is kicking and screaming trying to keep the war going.
What exactly do you expect him to do?
Thinking President Trump is weak, like this delusional statement below, shows the depth of TDS in the D.C. bubble :
“And if the Americans are willing to throw in their towel so much like this on Ukraine, you can bet that Xi is thinking, this gives him a clearer path in terms of taking Taiwan.”
SSCI, is dead in the water without all the leaking going to them and from them. Nice to see.
The Democratic Socialist Party, I’m sure is working on getting rid of this old fossilized white dude too, when his term ends. So much karma, so little time.
Warner – more than any other US politician (except perhaps Joey B and his family crime syndicate) – is the most
on the “take” from the Ukes.
I literally pray daily for this man to walk out onto the ice, and be a burden to the village no more.
I hope you’re not really praying for that but he definitely wouldn’t be missed!
The best parts of the Bible to me are the Psalms with King David calling God’s power down on his enemies. I get a warm and fuzzy feeling when I read them.
The key question raised by these statements from Warner:
“WARNER: I think what happens — it feels like this was a plan that they took almost entirely from the Russians,
did no consultation with Congress, no consultation with the Europeans, obviously didn’t read in Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians,
and now they’re getting ferocious pushback.
…
let’s, again,
you have overwhelming support still for Ukraine.
The last Ukraine aid package had 80 percent of the Congress.
I think the president is seeing this one-sided plan kind of blow up in his face with pushback from the Ukrainians, from the Europeans, from members of Congress of his own party.”
Yes, that’s quite a lot of rather ferocious pushback.
We can also add the wide media support for Ukraine, e.g.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/23/opinion/stand-up-for-ukraine-and-deliver-a-peace-deal-that-doesnt-reward-warmonger-putin
The key question is:
Just who has both the ability and motivation to stir up all that pushback?
I very seriously doubt the CIA and associated intelligence agencies have that kind of ability.
80 percent of Congress?
Come on.
It’s not the CIA pressuring them to do this, it’s their campaign donors, aided and abetted by those who fund the media.
Who has given parts of Ukraine away to Russia? Geo. W. Bush (now democrat), Barack Hussein Obama (part communist rat).
Two reptilians talking . . .
I mean, honestly, they took Jane Pauley off the Today Show because she was “too old” and losing her looks and she was gorgeous.
With any luck this putz will be political history sooner than later.
The DEVIL IS A DEMOCRAT .
(period)
Warmonger !
Actually, the most relevant million-dollar question, Mr. Warner, is how many millions have you illegally pocketed out of all the billions we’ve already given to Ukraine?
Too many dollars left on the table?
So the POS who got into office on 100% NAME RECOGNITION (read: voter STUPIDITY!) is still hangin’ on and screwin’ crap up after all these years. Makes me proud to say I moved the hell out of Virginia. You wanna know how Mark Warner operates, just watch the movie <u>The Distinguished Gentleman</u> with Eddie Murphy. It’s free on Youtube.
Black bag the guy, stick him on a transport, drop him off in Ukraine, hand him a rifle and point him towards the front.
I am so tired of these big mouthed do nothings. Let him fight for Ukraine if he wants war so bad.
“ Senator Mark Warner Not Happy with Ukraine Peace
Proposal“Here’s this intelligent agencies puppet using the mainstream media to disseminate a fraudulent narrative regarding FISA-702: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/04/21/wow-gaslighting-ssci-chairman-mark-warner-lies-about-fisa-702-fundamentals/
I have a friendly suggestion. Let’s create a special office for this Senator smack-dab on the front lines. And then, see just how long he lasts. If he makes it home, let’s watch to see if his messaging changed.
and his extended family please
The insufferable man with predictable globalist-bombast. IMHO the Donbas returning to Russia has been a foregone conclusion from Day1. End the grift and leftist propaganda from warmongering quislings.
Warner says repeatedly in different ways that the President has no plan, the action is disorganized, i.e., this administration is chaotic; said another way, President Trump’s leadership is chaotic.
To me these phrases interjected into every discussion, every media piece, are similar to the ad hominem attacks leftists regularly use, such as racist, sexist, science denier, dictator. They promote and maintain a narrative of chaos.
What we need to remember and call out is that the resistance causes the chaos.
If everyone accepted the outcome of the election, there would be no chaos. But we know that’s not how TPTB want it, sowing chaos and discord, ruining and devaluing our communities, demoralizing us, is how they seize, maintain and expand control.
A great phrase I heard in an interview Jake Novak (RAV) conducted the other day: they use our vocabulary, but not our dictionary.
Imma gonna go live my best life now.
Unfortunately, “it’s lonely at the top.” If you are the President, and therefore the Commander-in-Chief, there will be endless people looking to find your “feet of clay.” No matter what you say or do, they will assail you with very-public accusations that you don’t know what you are doing. Even our most “venerable” Presidents, including George Washington himself, were constantly vexed by this … and they very frequently said so.
But, the commanding officer has to lead. He is the one person who is not permitted to be deflected from his duties by “the noise.” His duty, working through those under him, is to command. But, “the right thing to do” is almost never fully apparent at the time. The commanders – supreme and subordinate – have to decide and then act anyway.
Mark Warner Senator who never wore the uniform, never got fired at, never had to follow an order in his miserable life, is not happy with a peace plan, which the only thing he does know is that peace will kill his 10% kickbacks from Ukraine spending and that is all that worries Senator Mark Warner!