It is a uniquely American sentiment that “when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade”.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio may be wishing that Donald Trump had given him a crate of citrus to juice over the weekend, rather than the Russia-inspired 28-point plan for Ukraine that the US President falsely claimed as his own.

Rubio is now working overtime in Geneva to try to salvage a peace effort that has raised fresh questions about why his boss remains so captivated by Russian President Vladimir Putin .

Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff , is working alongside Rubio in the Swiss capital, flanked by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and the US President’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Rubio is urgently trying to clean up the mess created by Witkoff, who appears to have fallen hook, line

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