Putin didn't want diplomacy, U.S. tells neutral Vietnam

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Senior State Department official to share details of failed talks with Moscow

Speaking in Ho Chi Minh City on June 11, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Russia rejected diplomatic solutions to head off the Ukraine war. (Photo by Lien Hoang)
LIEN HOANG, Nikkei staff writerJune 11, 2022 18:42 JST

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Wendy Sherman, the No. 2 official in the U.S. State Department, vowed to share with Vietnam details of the Biden administration's discussions with Russia, which failed to stave off Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Washington wants to show Hanoi that Russian President Vladimir Putin "did not want to pursue diplomacy," Sherman said in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday.

The outreach comes after Vietnam, which a Biden administration official has called "the swing state" of the Indo-Pacific, abstained from a United Nations vote in March to condemn Russia's invasion and voted against a resolution in April that booted Moscow from the Human Rights Council.

"President Putin started this war. He could end it today," Sherman said in remarks at Fulbright University Vietnam.

"Vietnam will make its own sovereign decisions, and we respect those, but we will talk about it, we will give our views about it," she said. "We will share all of the diplomacy that went into trying to find a peaceful solution, one that President Putin ... would not take."

She added: "So we will share all of that, and then Vietnam will make its choices."

Vietnam has not taken sides in the conflict but Sherman pinned the blame squarely on one man.

"We agree with Vietnam that getting to peace is critical" and requires diplomacy, she said, seated at a blue table against a golden backdrop -- reminiscent of Ukraine's flag. "But we are also clear there is only one aggressor here, and that is President Putin, and one victim: Ukraine. And so they are not equivalents. They are not the same."

When asked by a student whether the U.S. is attempting to influence Vietnam on the Ukraine war, Sherman stopped short of telling Vietnam to condemn Russia, but replied that her country would present the facts.

Vietnam has strong historical ties to both Ukraine and Russia, but depends on the latter for most of its weapons imports. The communist country also relied on Soviet support during the Cold War.

Sherman acknowledged that history, as well as Hanoi's push to end the war in Ukraine through diplomacy. But such efforts have failed so far, she said.

Speaking of Washington's own efforts, she said: "I personally had bilateral meetings with Russia. We had a whole menu of things we could do to help deal with the security concerns that President Putin had," Sherman said.

Putin didn't want diplomacy, U.S. tells neutral Vietnam

Senior State Department official to share details of failed talks with Moscow

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[Beast]

Yes, from united state of lying...

 

[PakFactor]

Lol, may be stop creeping up on his borders and they'd not be any issues. She should shed tears else-where dumb whore.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

surprised she didn't play the China bogeyman card, it might work better for her agenda if she just intimates Vietnam about the prospect of becoming the next Ukraine

 

[Brainsucker]

I'm curious on how Vienam will react about this; after :

1. Uni Soviet helped them took South Vietnam long time ago.
2. Uni Soviet again helped them indirectly against China after that.

How will Vietnam see their benefactor in today conflict. Will they take side on the people who bombed their country long time ago, or sided with the benefactor who have help them twice in their most dire need time.

 

[Muhammed45]

Putin's biggest mistake was counting on diplomacy for years. He should have started the operation right after massacring Russian ethnics of Donbass by NAZIs of Ukraine.

 

[Beast]

I'm curious on how Vienam will react about this; after :

1. Uni Soviet helped them took South Vietnam long time ago.
2. Uni Soviet again helped them indirectly against China after that.

How will Vietnam see their benefactor in today conflict. Will they take side on the people who bombed their country long time ago, or sided with the benefactor who have help them twice in their most dire need time.

@Viet who is a loser south Vietnamese regime follower , of cos will spill different story for Communist Vietnam who naive believe real Vietnam will 100% follow US against Russia.

 

[Viet]

I'm curious on how Vienam will react about this; after :

1. Uni Soviet helped them took South Vietnam long time ago.
2. Uni Soviet again helped them indirectly against China after that.

How will Vietnam see their benefactor in today conflict. Will they take side on the people who bombed their country long time ago, or sided with the benefactor who have help them twice in their most dire need time.

You don’t understand. We are pragmatic people we don’t hang on the past. China becomes nationalistic they will run amok soon. If Xi Jingping wants to invade Vietnam and denazify us we need weapons to defend. We need a constant flow of weapons like Ukraine today. Should we say no to US weapons because they were terrible bad? Makes no sense. Besides, Soviet Union is more than Russia. There are Ukraine, Kasaztan, Georgia, and many other. Putin Russia is not USSR.

@Viet who is a loser south Vietnamese regime follower , of cos will spill different story for Communist Vietnam who naive believe real Vietnam will 100% follow US against Russia.

South Vietnam is the economic, financial, technology and trade center as such it influences much of policy making.

 

[Beast]

You don’t understand. We are pragmatic people we don’t hang on the past. China becomes nationalistic they will run amok soon. If Xi Jingping wants to invade Vietnam and denazify us we need weapons to defend. We need a constant flow of weapons like Ukraine today. Should we say no to US weapons because they were terrible bad? Makes no sense. Besides, Soviet Union is more than Russia. There are Ukraine, Kasaztan, Georgia, and many other. Putin Russia is not USSR.

Typical warmonger who keep harping about China invasion of Vietnam? Why would China invade vietnam when our economy are growing and life getting better? Invasion is for countries like western europe and America who need war to divert attention of their decline.

I asked you about neo nazi Ukraine element and why u keep avoiding? You selective censorship while brag about freedom of media and speech?

you are just deluding yourself when you side with devil and evil. You wouldnt sleep with ease and you will have retribution.

 

[Viet]

Typical warmonger who keep harping about China invasion of Vietnam? Why would China invade vietnam when our economy are growing and life getting better? Invasion is for countries like western europe and America who need war to divert attention of their decline.

I asked you about neo nazi Ukraine element and why u keep avoiding? You selective censorship while brag about freedom of media and speech?

you are just deluding yourself when you side with devil and evil. You wouldnt sleep with ease and you will have retribution.

I am very concerned of chinese mental condition. You can’t seriously attack a x,y country because of pictures of xy group waging x,y flag.