FWIW I don’t think Rubio buys any of this “western civilization greatness” business. I think he is fixated on Cuba, it’s his white whale. He has dreamed of reverting Cuba back to being a colonial holding of the US, toppling the socialist project there and installing Miami gusanos in control of all economic and political aspect of the island his whole life. I think he’s just playing along with whatever Trump wants vis-a-vis the rest of the world in order to get what he wants.
Thankfully, as brutal and criminal as US actions against Cuba have been, it appears that the Cuban people are holding the line and I believe at the end of the day Rubio will be very disappointed.
Edit: want to point out that Rubio was confirmed as SoS by a vote of I think 99-0 in the Senate.
The mask comes off
While he denied and whitewashed the genocidal crimes of colonialism, Marco Rubio stressed that the basis of “Western civilization” is fundamentally predicated on capitalism.
The US secretary of state emphasized that anti-communism is a point of unity between Washington and Brussels.
It’s no mystery why they first came for the communists: capitalists recognize the greatest threat to their existence.
Perhaps we should give them a real reason to be scared of us. Instead of all these silly boogeymen ghost stories they come up with, let’s give them something concrete to point to showing that we are a threat to capitalism.
Communists have, that’s why the rise of the USSR forced western countries to adopt large safety nets, and why the PRC is so heavily demonized.
Sorry I meant here on the home front.
I know communist nations are a good foil to capitalist hellscapes.
Oh then in that case I agree!
The turd reich is getting standing O’s? This universe has to be a simulation and it’s caught a virus.
Europeans love their colonial history and will celebrate it any time they think they can get away with it.
I think it was Macron who, just a year or so ago, was talking about how countries in North Africa should be thanking France that they got colonized by them!
