
The US secretary of state fears that an escalation to break the current deadlock could turn the conflict into a wider regional crisis.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio toured Europe, ending with a stop in Portugal.
The war between Russia and Ukraine is in a “stalemate” which is “very dangerous” because the belligerents risk betting on an escalation to get out of it, American Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned on Thursday.
“One or both sides will intensify what they are doing to try to break the opponent and end the stalemate. And it’s very dangerous,” declared the head of American diplomacy during a stopover in Portugal at the end of a tour in Europe.
According to him, this blockage can lead either to “a negotiated settlement, in which each side must give up something to obtain peace”, or to “an escalation”. “It is very dangerous in the context of the war between Russia and Ukraine, because this escalation could end up taking the form of a sabotage campaign in neighboring countries which are members of NATO,” worried Marco Rubio, whose first visit to Portugal was.
“It could be any number of other things that could very quickly transform what is today a war between two countries into a much larger and infinitely more dangerous regional conflict,” added the US secretary of state. He then reaffirmed that his country stood ready to work towards a “negotiated settlement” of the conflict. "The sooner the better. The United States is ready to facilitate this. We tried. We will keep trying. But we are not going to invest ourselves in futile processes either,” he concluded.

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