Marco Rubio was supposed to be the exception—the adult in the room who understood how dangerous Putin is. But Marco has changed his mind. Ukraine and Europe should take note—because the guardrails are gone.
Rubio’s public broadside against Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday was not a spur-of-the-moment outburst. It was a signal flare. When the US Secretary of State accuses Ukraine’s president of lying and casually suggests American weapons could be diverted to the Middle East, he is not freelancing. He is announcing a new reality: in Trump’s Washington, Ukraine is no longer a cause to be defended. It is a problem to be managed.
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