Like a snake shedding its skin, Marco Rubio is shedding a lot of his previous opinions and positions to fit in with the Trump administration and to get the Senate’s approval. From the editors of Strategic Culture at strategic-culture.su:
Marco Rubio is a liar. He better practice getting real if he wants to be a top diplomat rather than the duplicitous hawk he has been for most of his career.
It doesn’t bode well that the next U.S. Secretary of State begins his top-flight position in government by telling blatant lies and fatuities.
Marco Rubio (53) is a sure bet to be confirmed as America’s most senior international envoy representing the new administration of President Donald Trump, who will be inaugurated in the White House on Monday.
This week, Florida Senator Rubio appeared before the Senate in confirmation hearings for his post. Rubio has been a senator since 2011 and has served on foreign relations and intelligence committees. Despite bitter personal clashes with Trump in the 2016 presidential campaign, Rubio was picked for the top diplomat post in the incoming administration. The confirmation is a done deal given his deep connections in Congress among Republicans and Democrats.
The ambitious son of Cuban immigrants is known for his hawkish views. He previously called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “thug” and described Russia as a “gangster state with nuclear weapons.”
Any future trips to Moscow will be awkward to say the least, especially when the “tough guy” Floridian meets a real diplomat like Russia’s Sergei Lavrov.
Strangely, though, this week, Rubio projected himself as the voice of reason and diplomacy. It was quite a U-turn.
He told the Senate committee that the top priority of the Trump administration will be to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. That view aligns with Trump’s oft-expressed desire for a settlement to the three-year conflict.
There’s a lot to parse in Rubio’s weasel words.
He informed senators: ”It should be the official policy of the United States that we want to see it [the war] end… This is not going to be an easy endeavor… My hope is that it could begin with some ceasefire.”
Rubio was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the Ukrainian regime, believing that it would inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.
Now, he has suddenly been overcome with seeming prudence and concern for peace by declaring that Ukraine cannot possibly win against Russia.
Lavrov will LOL and go WTF over any tough guy schtick from Disco Boots Rubio.
Compromised Joe Joe Brandon is why we funded the Ukraine sinkhole, as usual no vote on it.