Marco Rubio Issues Stark Warning About Vladimir Putin During Confirmation

Trump was never pro-Putin just anti-Cold War part II.

And now it is not even Cold. What a disaster.

Praying for all of Trump’s appointments. 🙏

Rubio’s assertion that “The nominee argued that if Ukraine is not in a strong position to negotiate it will be imposed “neutrality” only for Russia to rearm and attack the country again.” omits the fact that Russia is already armed to the teeth and is increasing its military mobilization every day.

I’m going to file this under “stupid things that only neocons believe.”

Rubio is not a good fit for this position.

He does not recognize reality.

What a disaster.“

I will withhold judgement given the context. Any hint of even the slightest softness toward Russia is going to get pounced on and the rats are hoping for it.
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Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio highlighted the need to support Ukraine in its war with Russia in order for Kyiv to be in the best position possible to negotiate a ceasefire. Otherwise, he said, Russian President Vladimir Putin will seek to impose "neutrality" on the country to buy time and attempt another large-scale invasion.

Putin obviously wants neutrality; he's said so, but as long as ethnic Russians get to be part of Russia, whether he would use Ukranian neutrality to stage another invasion, Rubio doesn't know that.

Totally!

Yeah I meant that the war itself under Biden has been a disaster.

Europe is going downhill. Marco will focus this country on Latin America. The left is easier to put in their place as they need guns to keep power.

Ukraine leverage ?

Losers have no leverage, zero , none

Surely Trump knows this, whether Rubio does or not is open for debate.

Best thing to do is cut off the funds , the situation will sort itself out.

Americas border security should be priority #1, if it isn’t he’ll get screwed by the Swamp once more.

This hearing was not contentious like the Hegseth one. Easy to see why. Rubio is one of them and foreign policy requires conversations more intellectual. The democrats blew their wad on Hegseth-expecially the women-idiots. Bondi was slightly better but what I like is the evidence that we’re not taking it anymore.

The Ukraine has no leverage because it has squandered the gifts that have been bestowed on it by mostly foreign interests who wish to drive the senseless death and destruction rather than generate the leverage needed to put the Ukraine on a firm footing to negotiate a strong

If the Ukraine had used it's NATO tanks, Bradley's and Javelins to build a strong line of defense, had not diverted so much of it's assets to the ill advised and disastrous Kursk adventure and had stockpiled the 30% of the US HIMARS inventory and a similar fraction of the NATO Storm Shadow missiles rather than squander them on totally pointless propaganda driven targets the Ukraine would be in a very strong negotiating position

If the Ukraine would have conserved it's army manpower and would have had hundreds of thousands of soldiers that have been killed in the meat grinder to defend the country.

Now the sudden realization the jig is up that the fact that the Ukraine has no leverage to negotiate is sinking in.

In a normal world, the Ukrainians would be facing unconditional surrender given their current status of forces and the destruction of their economy and their industrial base.

Marco has theright appraoch.BUt the fact is that AMerican Military might , not NATO will be the deciding factor here.
NATO is useless.

1)We have to understand that Putin must be made to believe he will see US Marines in the Black Sea with a couple of carrier task forces,\, readying to come ashore. THAT will be hard for Amrican Patriots to swallow. Its a Biden made mess, and unfortunately the old C___T has left us to clean it up.

2)THe other approach is to ruin Russia economically. That will take time we likely do not have.But I hope this is what Marco can do rather than the first option.

China wants the first option. Something to remember.