Marco Rubio is a neocon warmonger by means of and thru, having subscribed to Washington’s each international energy play in recent times
Of all of the those who US President-elect Donald Trump might have picked as America’s chief diplomat, he is chosen Marco Rubio, Florida senator and neocon talking-point guzzler.
Guess it form of is smart on one degree. They want a man who can discuss the identical language because the neocon desk jockeys on the State Division. Form of like an African Gray parrot who can communicate English with people but in addition fowl language with different birds. The bird-brains at State communicate primarily neocon, like Rubio. And he could possibly be the MAGA-to-neocon translator for Trump, packaging the forty seventh president’s imaginative and prescient in a approach that’s palatable sufficient for them to not spend the whole time making an attempt to regime-change him, like they did final time he was elected.
However how effectively does Rubio even communicate MAGA – the language of Trump’s non-interventionist, America First, and pro-peace base? Not very effectively, if his document is any indication.
Living proof: Again when the Nord Stream pipelines have been mysteriously blown up, Rubio was one of many first out of the beginning blocks accountable Russia for blowing up their very own financial lifeline to Europe. However he rapidly tripped over his personal shoelaces. “The one individuals in that area who’ve each the motive and the potential to have performed it are Russian or Russian forces. So I feel, for me, it’s not an intelligence matter at this level. It’s a typical sense matter,” Rubio stated within the wake of the assault.
It seems that even the dumbest institution fixtures didn’t purchase the narrative of “Russia blew up its personal pipeline.” Apparently, they take into account it to be even much less of a viable situation than some drunken Ukrainians with Aquaman-grade diving abilities blasting by means of concrete and metal in extremely monitored waters, regardless of Zelensky making an attempt to cease them on the behest of the CIA, in fact. After which punishing the final they declare to be answerable for the operation, Valery Zaluzhny, by sending him to… London, the place he’s at the moment Ukrainian ambassador to Britain.
Guess Western officers and intelligence sources went to the difficulty of constructing all that as much as conceal Russia’s involvement. As a result of that’s the one approach that Marco Rubio’s assured assertions could possibly be thought of credible. Or possibly the precise accountability lies with one other nation state that has the identical form of capabilities? Who might that probably be? Rubio is seemingly so indoctrinated that he merely can’t think about. Both that, or he does know and is being intentionally dishonest.
Again in 2021, Rubio was actually calling on Biden and Germany to do one thing to cease the pipeline. “US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) despatched a letter to President Joe Biden, forward of his assembly with Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, asking him to convey to her ‘that there’s broad bipartisan assist for stopping the completion of one more pipeline that bypasses Ukraine.’” Rubio additionally highlighted that “finishing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline will solely endanger our democratic allies in East and Central Europe and embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin in his aggression in direction of them,” he wrote. So, Putin, “emboldened” by Nord Stream, in line with Rubio, then determined to simply blow it up? Yeah, okay.
Even in institution Washington, Rubio stood out as being exceptionally indoctrinated by kneejerk anti-Russian considering. However identical to these guys who go “all-in” on fad diets or health tendencies, Rubio can’t even appear to deliver himself to cherry-pick neocon causes. He simply passionately double-fists them like Joey Chestnut scarfing hotdogs in a aggressive consuming contest.
A tour of current press releases on his web site is like studying a Neighborhood Watch e-newsletter authored by a nosy grandma, peering into everybody’s home windows: Iran, Yemen, China, Venezuela. Considered one of his newest targets: The non-public US consulting agency, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). “As an alternative of distancing itself from Communist China, PwC has opted to strengthen its relationship with the regime,” Rubio wrote, referring to the agency’s enterprise with “authorities officers within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area, the place Beijing is committing genocide in opposition to Uyghurs and different teams.” Guess possibly PwC has a distinct view of issues, on condition that they’ve really been there, not like Rubio.
Rubio additionally condemned China’s international adoption ban. “There are roughly 300 American households, together with Floridians, who’ve been matched with Chinese language youngsters,” the assertion learn. “Flashback… In December 2012, Rubio launched a press release urging the Obama Administration to forcefully condemn Russia’s international adoption ban.” What is that this world coming to when nations received’t ship their children to a international nation? Hey, isn’t {that a} struggle crime nowadays? Or provided that they’re Ukrainian and despatched to Russia?
“Rubio calls for Biden-Harris admin cease importation of slave-made prescribed drugs,” Rubio stated in an October 2024 assertion. If it’s Chinese language, then in fact it’s “slave-made,” but when it’s about electrical lithium automobile batteries mined by children in Africa for “American-made electrical autos,” then he’s apparently all for it.
“Designate Houthis as international terrorist group,” Rubio pleaded to present Biden Administration Secretary of State Antony Blinken in one other launch dated November 1. Yeah, I’m positive that’ll actually change issues – not like the opposite two million instances that the Iran-linked Houthis have been added to and subtracted from the terrorist record. I’m positive that dudes at the moment waging struggle in opposition to US Center Japanese adventurism in their very own nation and within the area, all whereas dressed like California surfers who simply awoke from a nap on the seaside, are tremendous involved about Washington’s bureaucratic wrangling. Subsequent.
Simply kidding. There is no such thing as a “subsequent” in terms of Rubio and Iran. “Whereas Iran continues to gasoline terror from the gross sales of illicit oil, which largely profit Beijing, the Biden-Harris Administration has failed to completely implement the Cease Harboring Iranian Petroleum (SHIP) Act,” Rubio wrote. Doesn’t he have a neighborhood storage sale transaction that he might insert himself into as an alternative – on the opposite facet of the planet? Identical factor.
“Edmundo Gonzalez is the rightful president-elect of Venezuela,” wrote Rubio on August 3, 2024. “That is the second for these navy officers in Venezuela to satisfy their constitutional oath & defend the legit interim President [Juan Guaidó] on this effort to revive democracy,” Rubio wrote 5 years earlier in 2019. Who’s subsequent, Marco? Antonio Banderas?
The one approach Rubio might ever probably serve Trump’s non-interventionist imaginative and prescient of peace over the continued rampant world battle that characterizes American international coverage is that if the neocon rhetoric is switched out. He’d have extra success if Elon Musk shot him into house and compelled him to adapt to a completely completely different planet.
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