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Man without a spine [1]
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Date: 2025-02-18
Marco Rubio is a perfect scientific example of a man who can appear normal while actually lacking both a spine and a soul. His “negotiations” in Saudi Arabia with Russian operatives, but NO representatives of Ukraine or the European nations who will be most affected by these “talks,” show him as the worst sort of sell-out imaginable. From Prof. Timothy Snyder open.substack.com/...:
Consider the horrid negotiating tactics of the United States. They are are so disastrously bad that they call into question whether these talks can even really be considered negotiations. Trump and everyone around him keeps emphasizing that the United States is in a hurry. But no negotiator would so this. Admitting urgency grants to the other side the easy move of dragging their feet to get concessions. And these are already on offer! Members of the Trump administration and Trump himself keep conceding essential points to Russia in advance of any actual talks and in public (territory, NATO membership, timing of elections, even the existence of Ukraine) — issues that are not only essential to Ukraine but elemental to Ukrainian sovereignty. The only way such American behavior makes sense is if we consider that the Americans are negotiating as Russians. But if everyone in Saudi Arabia is on the same side, these are not negotiations. “Talks” is safer.
Rubio is complicit in Trump’s capitulation to his Russian puppet-master, Putin, as he engages in this faux display of “diplomacy:”
Tomorrow in Saudi Arabia, Russian officials will discuss the future of Ukraine with an handful of Americans, delegated by a president who sympathizes with the Russian view of the war. The Russians will have the luxury of talking about Ukraine without the presence of Ukrainians.
This is the guy that almost all of the Senate voted to confirm because he was a “normal” Republican. But here is the jerk he serves throwing Ukraine under the bus: www.cnn.com/...
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