Marco Rubio's speech in Munich on Saturday was the most intelligent piece of foreign policy the current US administration has produced so far. Intelligent because it was polished, well-argued, and seemingly conciliatory. In fact, European governments greeted the speech with relief, like someone expecting the coup de grâce and suddenly being offered a lifeline.

Relief washed over the Munich Security Conference after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that, despite criticism and threats from the Trump administration, Washington wants to remain an ally of Europe. In his highly anticipated speech, Rubio emphasized the close ties between the United States and Europe: "We are destined to be together." "Our destiny is and always will be intertwined with yours, because we know that the fate of Europe will never be irrelevant to our own national security," the US top diplomat stated at the world's most important annual forum on international security and defense policy. "That's why we Americans can sometimes seem a bit blunt and urgent in our advice... The reason, my friends, is that we care deeply," Rubio said. The tone of Marco Rubio's speech contrasts sharply with the controversial remarks made a year ago in Munich by JD Vance, in which he harshly criticized Europe for being overly dependent on US support. Vance's speech, in which he questioned the state of democracy and freedom of expression in Europe and offered veiled support for the far right, sparked outrage among European leaders and highlighted the rift between the United States and Europe following Donald Trump's return to the White House. Rubio, on the other hand, received applause from the audience at the Munich Security Conference for emphasizing the importance of ensuring a strong alliance between the United States and Europe. However, despite the more conciliatory tone, the US Secretary of State insisted on the need for Europeans to take greater responsibility for defending themselves against threats instead of relying so heavily on US aid. The Secretary of State asserted that "the United States wants to see a strong Europe." "We want allies who can defend themselves, so that no adversary is tempted to challenge our collective strength," he insisted. There was also room for criticism in his speech. Rubio has warned about the effects of "mass immigration" and "deindustrialization" in the West, phenomena against which he has encouraged Europeans to act together to strengthen the transatlantic alliance. Regarding the peace talks for Ukraine initiated by US President Donald Trump, Rubio stated that he does not know if Moscow is seriously negotiating to end the conflict, but asserted that Washington must continue to test Russian President Vladimir Putin's willingness to negotiate. Zelensky, skeptical of Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, for his part, hopes that the negotiations taking place next week in Geneva between Moscow, Kyiv, and Washington will be "serious, substantive, and useful." However, Zelensky noted in Munich that "sometimes it seems the parties are talking about completely different things." "The Russians often speak of a certain Anchorage spirit, and we can only guess what they really mean," Zelensky said, referring to the meeting between Trump and Putin that took place in Alaska in August 2015 without the Ukrainians present. "The Americans often return to the issue of concessions, which are discussed far too often in the context of Ukraine and not Russia," added the Ukrainian president, who lamented that Europe is "virtually" absent from the negotiating table when it should be. "It's a huge mistake," the Ukrainian leader declared during his address at the Munich Security Conference. Zelenskyy said that Putin fancies himself a Russian tsar, but in reality, he is "a slave to war." "He cannot live without war. If he lives another ten years, war could return or expand," he warned Europeans and Americans. The Ukrainian president said Russia's actions remind him of the 1938 Munich Agreement, "when the previous Putin began to divide Europe." "It would be an illusion to believe that this war can reliably end now by dividing Ukraine, just as it was an illusion to believe that sacrificing Czechoslovakia would save Europe from a major war," Zelenskyy maintained. "That is why we need real security guarantees for Ukraine and Europe" before the war ends, he demanded.

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the mastermind and enforcer of the Trump administration's plans for Latin America, is the son of Cuban immigrants. During the election campaign, he explained that his parents had arrived in the US in 1959 fleeing persecution by the Castro regime. This was a lie Rubio spread to win votes among the anti-Castro Cuban community: in reality, his parents arrived in the US in 1956 (he was born in 1971), and the Rubio family had little or nothing to do with the resistance against Fidel Castro's dictatorship. They did, however, have a curious experience in the mid-1980s, when Marco Rubio was fourteen: his family lived temporarily in a house that served as a cocaine warehouse for a drug trafficking gang led by Orlando Cicilia, who was the current Secretary of State's brother-in-law. This fact alone establishes a stronger connection between Marco Rubio ("Narco Rubio," an easy joke in Miami) and drug trafficking than that between Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whom Trump has singled out as the next to receive a fanciful visit from the DEA and Delta Force in the wee hours of the morning, with deaths.

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The United States Army destroyed a boat on Tuesday night The ship was carrying eleven people who, according to Donald Trump, were Venezuelan drug traffickers transporting drugs to his country. They were murdered "in international waters." Without trial. Without warning. At this point, it's not known who they were, exactly what they were carrying, or under what law the United States considers it legitimate to kill people on the high seas, whether they are drug traffickers or not. Well, it is known. In January, one of the first things the new president did was declare a series of drug trafficking cartels terrorist groups, including the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA), to which the crew of the destroyed vessel supposedly belonged. This means that drug traffickers are now equated with al-Qaeda terrorists, for example, and the US military believes it can pursue, arrest, and kill them anywhere in the world. Furthermore, that same July, in a secret order, Trump directly authorized the Pentagon to carry out this type of intervention.

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