Posted on 11/23/2024 12:44:45 PM PST by Angelino97
Sen. Marco Rubio will succeed Antony Blinken as secretary of State. Rubio has spent most of his political career promoting neoconservative orthodoxy and advocating U.S. military interventions abroad. Until his supposed MAGA conversion two years ago he had never seen a war he did not like and praised George W. Bush’s Iraq disaster as late as 2016... Rubio reportedly was close to the late billionaire Sheldon Adelson and other big neocon donors, and has supported illegal settlement building in the West Bank as well as suggesting that the U.S. may have to go to war with Iran over its nuclear program.
Rubio is the embodiment of the GOP establishment wing. When running for the Republican nomination against Trump in 2026, he said that American power must be “motivated by a desire to expand freedom, rather than simply expand its own territory … While America did not intend to become the world’s indispensable power, that is exactly what our economic and political freedoms have made us … The free nations of the world still look to America to champion our shared ideals.”
Rep. Michael Waltz will be Trump’s national security advisor, former Fox News presenter Pete Hegseth will be secretary of Defense, and Rep. Elise Stefanik will be UN Ambassador. I will not bore you with their belligerent quotes, dozens of them, on any issue of import over the past decade. Suffice to say that, until very recently, none of them had ever seen a war they did not like. Stefanik in particular is a piece of work. She once worked for the arch neocon Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and (worse still) for Bill Kristol’s Foreign Policy Initiative...
“You are hearing a sigh of relief from America’s allies abroad,” Alyssa Farrah Griffin was quoted as saying by Newsweek.
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I don’t see these folks as “neocons” (whatever that may mean to the writer) as pro=American people who will try to repair some of the damage the last 4 years have inflicted on us.
I’m very confortable and indeed even hopeful to see how much this new administration of (obviously very capable people) can do towards repairing America’s moral leadership, our economy, and yes our defenses and genuine alliances. Most of all our moral leadership, which was most regrettably directed into the sewer under the DemoNaziCommie regime.
Srdja Trifkovic sounds upset. I guess you would be too if that was your name.
well, author Phillip K. Dick
had a worser complaint
What the heck is a Srdja Trikovic?
I wonder if he will be confirmed.
Every Neocon claims their wars are "pro-American."
After seeing the end results of our participation in foreign wars, i have become a neo-Isolationist. Europe is fast devolving into a Wannabe Third Reich. We ultimately accomplished nothing in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have tried for 100 years to save the world only to find out it’s not worth saving.
Has Trump been co-opted? Has he made a deal with the devil, just to be elected again? Why is ANTIFA and BLM so quiet, why are there no riots? Why are the MAGA people who have stayed loyal to Trump for four long years and have expertise in these areas been locked out of the new administration and these neocon politicos and media people let in?
Finally, why are European heads of state (NATO) "breathing a sigh of relief"? One would expect the exact opposite if these picks represented to the Europeans the makings of an "America First" policy team.
A Czechoslovakian Anti-Communist. That is to say a very non-globalist point of view. And entirely correct about little marco. Rubio was a fine state senator in FL Legislature, and represents his home constituency of loyal American Cuban American Anti-Communists (although occasionally when asked by his owners (the Fanjul Sugar owning Cuban family- Bahamas based, btw) he does what Leftist 3rd gen Cubans are trying to get, and they will never get it. A non-Communist non-Fidelista junta run country who stole their land.
On the world stage- Rubio might jump right off the Trump train and go where his pals tell him to. The Sugar consortiums around the world. It is a thing, and also Big Tobacco (see- Cuban seed cigar leaf grown in countries like Dominican Republic et al).
So all of this adds up to only a recent “Trumper” if you will. There could be, and should be more MAGA candidates for the Secretary of State (who would dig up all the shite Hitlery and Pompeo, and Blinken have pulled off. Especially Pompeo). After all, Sec State has not usually a position aligned with the Vatican (about which see: Newt Gingrich, recent convert).
This is an inside Beltway attempted appt. Rubio could blast Sen. Warner right out of his seat on the Senate Intel. But nooo— the payoff (which wasn’t needed Mr. Trump they support you 100% without Marco’s “help”) to the Cuban Diaspora is Sec of State? No- don’t think so. None of the old Cuban traditionalists ever supported JFK, Sr. for the obvious reasons he stabbed them in the back. Until all of the seeing eye files on that are known- we cannot know the full story. All of this is hardly a conservative move on the global US stage. Need somebody much stronger and NEVER a Rex Tillerson type (what a disaster).
Ah, there's the rub.
I remember Neocons using the term "America's interests" many times during the 2000s.
Every foreign adventure can be shoehorned into the phrase.
Nation Bulding was the Neo- Con way. Jacksonians don’t do that.
Trifkovic is right.
And it does appear that “it will become somewhat clearer why Trump was allowed to win and Harris was not allowed to cheat, why there have been no Antifa or BLM riots in the aftermath of his victory, why there is no “resistance” within the federal bureaucracy anywhere on the horizon, and why the mainstream media machine is notably less hysterical vis-à-vis Trump than at any time over the past nine years”.
That $100M “donation” from Adelson came with some covenants.
Another one: Relationship and transaction bassed foreign policy.
A further comment- if Matt Gaetz is appointed Senator from FL to replace Rubio, then Gaetz could replace Rubio as the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
THAT would flip out the demonrats within the Gang of Eight security clearance intel level of information (in the know, so to speak).
For the Republicans in Majority in the Senate would control the Senate Intel Committee.
This would be a very smart move for the remainder of Rubio’s ‘term’.
Remember it was Mitch the Biotch who steered all of this crap, himself being the Repub. minority leader and member of Gang of Eight himself. Thune taking over in 2025.
Don’t think the Derp State doesn’t know this and are steering crap their way. Mark Warner is a freaking confirmed and verified MORON and for sure a demonrat apparatchik who needs to go. The so called “senior” Senator from FEDGOV Blue Virginia (which needs to be broken up starting with Fairfax County and Yevgeny Vindman, who appallingly took the VA seat there from a Republican who should have won). Don’t forget that Tim Kaine got back in the freaking weirdo with the AntiFa faggot son, a paedo predilections of his own Mr. Kaine.
When you take a bullet for Americ, get back to me.
removing the Iranian dictators’ nukes and ICBM’s is necessary.
or else they will do just as they say (repeatedly) and nuke USA (and the radioactive contamination will spread pretty much across the country from their 7 or 8 announced major city targets)
like it or not. Fortunately, we are advised that the entire job can be done in a couple hours by the great USAF so we are not looking at a ground war like Iraq or Afghanistan
I’d like to buy a vowel.
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