US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, touched upon Ukraine and the Middle East, speaking of Washington's efforts to end the conflicts in those regions during an interview with journalist Tucker Carlson.
He emphasized that it would not be appropriate for the US to engage in mediation where it cannot be effective.
“Why would I waste my time or the United States time? And worse yet, why would I put the—why would I come to the president, recommend to him that we could finish something with dialogue, and then effectively we can’t be that effective? That’s a bad policy prescription. If I’m not in this thing, making those sort of assessments and being able to come back to the president and say, I think we can finish it with dialogue or not. And those calculations are going to be the same with the Iranians, and they’re going to be the same with the Russians and the Ukrainians, and they’re going to be the same with Azerbaijan and Armenia.” Witkoff added.
According to him, these principles can be applied to all conflicts, and the US should only participate in negotiations where it has a real impact: “So those principles apply to all of these conflicts that we’re going to maybe talk about today.”
