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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(118,779 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 01:38 PM Jan 27

What will a Marco Rubio-led State Department Look Like?

It came as no surprise that Donald Trump couldn’t make good on his boast to end Russia’s war in Ukraine on his first day back in the White House.

“Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after I win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled,” Trump proclaimed last spring and reiterated often on the campaign trail.

Then-candidate Trump’s absurd promise of supernatural resolution powers roused fears that he would end the conflict by sacrificing Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s expansionist ambitions. Candidate Trump’s pressure on Congress to withhold vital U.S. defense aid to Ukraine a year ago seemed to signal his intent to abandon Ukraine, an aspiring democracy that has been independent since the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.

But newly inaugurated President Trump’s nominees for the top foreign policy and security positions have been downplaying the prospects for a swift end to the war – equitable or expeditious — any time soon. And the proposed envoys and advisors appear to be pursuing a more even-handed approach to the peace efforts than their Putin-admiring boss had envisioned.

https://www.postalley.org/2025/01/23/what-will-a-marco-rubio-led-state-department-look-like/

It'll be full of ass kissing toadies.

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What will a Marco Rubio-led State Department Look Like? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 27 OP
Incompetence and chaos like his masters... Lovie777 Jan 27 #1
It will look like the reflection in the mirror,.... magicarpet Jan 27 #2
I give him a year at most genxlib Jan 27 #3
Another Bay of Pigs disaster as his opening act. BamaRefugee Jan 27 #4
Marco Rubio is known as an AWOL Miami Blue Jan 27 #5
A Saturday Night Live skit? LoisB Jan 27 #6

magicarpet

(17,603 posts)
2. It will look like the reflection in the mirror,....
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 01:52 PM
Jan 27

.... with the Tangerine Traitor standing infront of it.

genxlib

(5,788 posts)
3. I give him a year at most
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 01:58 PM
Jan 27

He has been dispatched to Panama to deliver the Canal back for his master. He does not have the personality to be the enforcer that Trump wants.

He will get blamed for not making things happen and will be ousted for a dumber, meaner person to act like a jerk in our name.

Miami Blue

(228 posts)
5. Marco Rubio is known as an AWOL
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 02:40 PM
Jan 27

Little Marco has a very bad habit of not showing up and not liking to travel to DC to vote on the Senate bills.

Including the multiple and important bills for the
disaster relief programs, eg. for the hurricanes bill that destroyed thousands of homes in Florida

What sort of excuses Little Marco will be
providing to the American people when
he is ordered to travel to war zones?


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