Summary
Secretary of State Marco Rubio grew visibly frustrated during an ABC News interview when questioned about the Trump administrationās approach to Russia.
Defending Trumpās push for peace talks with Putin, Rubio insisted negotiations were necessary but admitted the administration didnāt know Russiaās demands.
He clashed with host George Stephanopoulos over Trumpās refusal to call Putin a dictator and the U.S. siding with Russia in a recent UN vote.
Rubio also compared Trumpās handling of Ukraine to Bidenās approach to Israel, further escalating tensions.
Fyi, UK, NL, FR, ES etc all went with you on your āright of passageā sail throughs, against the chinese. Thats NATO.
Guess who can do that all on its own from now on.
Guess which countries also put sanctions on china? Your NATO partners.
Guess where the machines most chips are made withā¦ Are being made? (NL says hi.)
If you stop scratching our backā¦ Why should we still scratch yours? The chinese market is double yours. We can make more euros there then in your tariff hellscape.
Have fun having the biggest military for the time being. In a few years china has eclipsed yours.
Trumpās tantrums have made it very clear we should buy our military gear locally. So we will. Same will happen with cloud and tech. You canāt be trusted. One day everything is ok, next day everything is +25%
If this continues for a few more months it will mean the end of US hegemony. You will be left with nothing.
In the end we will make peace with Russia, simply because we must. The oil will flow west again in a few years leaving you with all the problems of fracking and zero gains.
Same will happen with china.
We will be allright, bud.
From an EU standpoint it doesnāt matter if the US, china or even Russia is our partner. It mattered because of history. But trumpās US chooses to flush it all down the drain. So we will check if the turd really went down.
Theyāre all marque destinations for Chinese exports. Why on earth would China prevent them from sailing in to pick up merch? Sail Through isnāt a consequence of NATO, its a consequence of a multi-trillion dollar trade network.
The sanctions are a joke. Russian gas and Chinese tech have been flooding markets in gray markets across the South Pacific and the Middle East. Germans are buying gas through Turkyie at a middlemanās markup. Indonesia and Malyasia are restamping Chinese manufactured goods and passing them under the radar of sanctions officials. And NATO leadership knows it. They turn a blind eye, because the Business First ideology of capitalism means fattening the wallets of a few industry insiders is far more important than imposing any kind of uniform foreign policy.
Youāve missed so many steps in the supply chain, its difficult to know where to start. But if you want to believe the Netherlands is the heart of the global electronics manufacturing industry, thatās none of my business.
The US has been sloughing off its hegemony since Bush invaded Iraq. But the game was already functionally over when the UK was forced out of Hong Kong. The Americans have been scrambling to keep control of the Philippines, as liberals panic at even Chinese-adjacent businesses in Singapore gaining global popular appeal. Theyāve lost control of the Suez thanks to their proxy war defeats in Yemen of all places. And South Africa has been outside the western sphere of influence since Apartheid ended.
Whatās scarier than any Trump Tariff is the possibility of the Americans losing control of the Panama Canal, in their own backyard.
Weāll see. Trumpās itchy trigger finger blew up the peace deal with Iran and cost the US any kind of stability across the Persian Gulf. Weāre alienated from the Turks, weāre pissing of Ukraine, and weāve lost control of a large swath of Central Africa, all because American ethno-nationalism remains the lodestone of our foreign policy. I donāt know if we can bring ourselves to make peace with anyone. All we can do is walk away from our crumbling edifice of empire.