{"id":139278,"date":"2025-04-18T16:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/marco-rubio-has-lost-himself\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:18:18","slug":"marco-rubio-has-lost-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/marco-rubio-has-lost-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Has Lost Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">In 2013, <strong>Marco Rubio<\/strong> <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/research-products\/speech\/restoring-principle-a-foreign-policy-worthy-of-the-american-dream\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.aei.org\/research-products\/speech\/restoring-principle-a-foreign-policy-worthy-of-the-american-dream\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/research-products\/speech\/restoring-principle-a-foreign-policy-worthy-of-the-american-dream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gave<\/a> a towering international coverage speech designed to sign his seriousness to the world. In hovering rhetoric, he chastised his isolationist colleagues succumbing to the \u201cfalse allure of protectionist policies\u201d and touted America\u2019s use of arduous and gentle energy to ship a extra steady world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsider the countless lives we\u2019ve saved from the scourge of AIDS in Africa through the PEPFAR program. Or consider the economic mobility created by American trade and investment,\u201d Rubio wrote in ready remarks. He spoke of the nation\u2019s legacy spreading \u201cliberty, free enterprise, and respect for human rights\u201d around the globe and warned that \u201ca lack of American engagement comes with an even higher price\u201d than the price of getting concerned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIf America stops leading,\u201d he requested, \u201cwho will fill the vacuum we leave behind?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Anyone know what occurred to that man?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">On Friday, Secretary of State Rubio <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/18\/world\/europe\/rubio-ukraine-russia-war-paris.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/18\/world\/europe\/rubio-ukraine-russia-war-paris.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/18\/world\/europe\/rubio-ukraine-russia-war-paris.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">informed<\/a> reporters that the United States would determine \u201cin a matter of days\u201d whether or not a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is \u201cdoable.\u201d If not, he stated, \u201cWe need to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIt is not our war,\u201d he stated, based on <em>The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Rubio\u2019s remarks got here a day after he met with prime Ukrainian and European officers, together with French President <strong>Emmanuel Macron<\/strong>, for high-level talks a couple of attainable peace deal. But Rubio made clear that <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s endurance for peace negotiations is waning. While campaigning for president, Trump <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/26\/europe\/timeline-trumps-pledge-to-end-ukraine-war\/index.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/26\/europe\/timeline-trumps-pledge-to-end-ukraine-war\/index.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/26\/europe\/timeline-trumps-pledge-to-end-ukraine-war\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promised<\/a> he\u2019d finish the conflict inside a day. Rubio stated the president \u201chas spent 87 days\u201d engaged on a decision. Far be it for advanced geopolitical negotiations involving a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/ukraine-history-fact-checking-putin-513812\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/ukraine-history-fact-checking-putin-513812\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/ukraine-history-fact-checking-putin-513812\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">centuries\u2019 previous turf conflict<\/a> and one cruel dictator to take longer than three months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Meanwhile, Trump has continued to rewrite historical past, repeatedly arguing that Ukrainian president <strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong> began the conflict. &#8220;You do not begin a conflict with somebody 20 occasions your dimension after which hope folks offer you some missiles,&#8221; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/04\/14\/trump-blames-zelensky-russia-ukraine-war-ceasefire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a> earlier this week based on Axios. In the face of the United States\u2019 waffling and the president\u2019s blame sport, Russia, in the meantime, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russian-missile-attack-ukraines-kharkiv-kills-one-injures-57-more-officials-say-2025-04-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> a missile assault on Kharkiv Friday morning that killed one particular person and wounded 82 others, together with youngsters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">But Ukraine is much from the one situation on which the New Rubio has turn out to be wholly recognizable from the previous one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The similar one that, in that 2013 speech, celebrated PEPFAR\u2019s accomplishments and warned about American abandonment spilling over into humanitarian crises, has now overseen the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/18\/marco-rubio-peter-marocco-usaid-firing-00297812\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/18\/marco-rubio-peter-marocco-usaid-firing-00297812&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/18\/marco-rubio-peter-marocco-usaid-firing-00297812\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">systematic dismantling<\/a> of USAID, the very company that runs this system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The similar one that, in 2013, known as for <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/05\/08\/america-needs-a-pro-growth-immigration-system\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/05\/08\/america-needs-a-pro-growth-immigration-system\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/05\/08\/america-needs-a-pro-growth-immigration-system\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stapling<\/a> inexperienced playing cards to international college students\u2019 diplomas is now <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/secretary-rubio-why-making-america-safer-means-revoking-visas-when-threats-arise\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/secretary-rubio-why-making-america-safer-means-revoking-visas-when-threats-arise&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/secretary-rubio-why-making-america-safer-means-revoking-visas-when-threats-arise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defending<\/a> his resolution to tear them away by the lots of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The similar one that stated again then that we should \u201cfind ways to make the visa application process less burdensome for those wishing to travel and do business in the United States\u201d <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/secretary-rubio-why-making-america-safer-means-revoking-visas-when-threats-arise\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/secretary-rubio-why-making-america-safer-means-revoking-visas-when-threats-arise&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/secretary-rubio-why-making-america-safer-means-revoking-visas-when-threats-arise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">argued<\/a> final week that \u201cvisiting America is not an entitlement. It is a privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The similar one that, in 2013, stated that America should keep true to its \u201cguiding principles of liberty and human rights\u201d is now <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/04\/14\/trump-presidency-news-tariffs-deportations\/#link-EITTOYWABBHN3C5KZK3OZKT6HI\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/04\/14\/trump-presidency-news-tariffs-deportations\/#link-EITTOYWABBHN3C5KZK3OZKT6HI&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/04\/14\/trump-presidency-news-tariffs-deportations\/#link-EITTOYWABBHN3C5KZK3OZKT6HI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doubling down<\/a> on the president\u2019s supposed authority to ship individuals who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/60-minutes-venezuelans-el-salvador-prison?srsltid=AfmBOoqT1rjmyfD9o5JYTmhe8fXK-FDJ4lMSP-5iMVUMZYWtwjqrzuoD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neither been charged nor convicted<\/a> of any crimes to a gulag in El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The solely rationalization? He\u2019s not the identical particular person in any case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In 2013, Marco Rubio gave a towering international coverage speech designed to sign his seriousness to the world. In hovering rhetoric, he chastised his isolationist colleagues succumbing to the \u201cfalse allure of protectionist policies\u201d and touted America\u2019s use of arduous and gentle energy to ship a extra steady world. \u201cConsider the countless lives we\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[232,4129,4130],"class_list":{"0":"post-139278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-lost","9":"tag-marco","10":"tag-rubio"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}