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Marco Rubio Standing ovation from our European allies

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Mark Rubio has achieved greatness. The liberals are the only ones who refuse to admit that.
The liberals? Joined by the entire free world, forming new economic alliances to protect themselves from Trump tariff terrorism.
 
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Mark Rubio has achieved greatness. The liberals are the only ones who refuse to admit that.
Greatness? He is ruthless to his own heritage.

FYI
Cuba is currently facing a severe and deepening humanitarian crisis that United Nations experts warn is nearing a total socio-economic collapse.
Following the enactment of U.S. Executive Order 14380 in late January 2026, which imposed a fuel blockade and tariffs on third-party oil suppliers, the island has been paralyzed by critical shortages of energy, food, and medicine.
Current Conditions
* Health and Water: Over 80% of water pumping equipment depends on electricity, leading to widespread loss of safe water and sanitation. Intensive care units and emergency rooms are compromised, and a lack of refrigeration is ruining essential vaccines and blood products.
* Food Scarcity: The fuel shortage has disrupted the harvesting of crops and the national food rationing system, leaving many Cubans hungry.
* Infrastructure Collapse: Rolling blackouts of up to 20 hours occur daily. Schools and universities have been closed, public transport has largely ceased, and garbage is piling up in cities because trash trucks lack fuel.
* Public Health: Cases of dengue, chikungunya, and the Oropouche virus are surging due to the breakdown of municipal waste and sanitation systems.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed extreme worry over the "disproportionate impact" on vulnerable groups, including children and the elderly. Many nations, including Canada and the UK, have advised against all non-essential travel to the island as it struggles with these catastrophic shortages.

Secretary Rubio effectively launders the devastating humanitarian impact of the U.S. fuel blockade through a lens of 'statutory necessity,' dismissing the starvation of the Cuban people as an inevitable byproduct of the regime’s own 'intransigence' while simultaneously using his Cuban heritage to moralize a strategy of asphyxiation that he frames as a liberation, rather than a cause, of the island's collapse
 
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Rubio’s always been one of the better clowns in the Trump 2.0 circus. Pretty amazing transformation from 2016 Marco who was brave enough to call out Trump for what he was.

Still, I’d take him over Vance to at least have a fellow Latino possibly hold such a high office as the presidency.
 
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Rubio’s always been one of the better clowns in the Trump 2.0 circus. Pretty amazing transformation from 2016 Marco who was brave enough to call out Trump for what he was.

Still, I’d take him over Vance to at least have a fellow Latino possibly hold such a high office as the presidency.
You think he holds any kind of allegiance to his skin color? Or is this just the usual desire of the left to have new minorities in some political office for the first time?
 
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I am quite sure those in Europe were happy to hear that despite the rhetoric from Rubio's boss and the VP, the US is still a ally.
As noted, "Indeed, the US secretary of state got a standing ovation in the room – a gesture perhaps more of relief than of adulation."
 
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You think he holds any kind of allegiance to his skin color? Or is this just the usual desire of the left to have new minorities in some political office for the first time?
No I don’t think he hold allegiance to anything at all besides power but it’d still be fun to see the white nationalists possibly elect a president Rubio even if his name does translate to “blonde”.

I mainly just find him at least more palatable than Vance.
 
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The german politicians who stood up (Foreign Minister Wadephul, Defense minister Pistorius and bavarian minister president Söder) are claiming that the standing ovation was pure politeness and not a sign of enthusiastic agreement.
I can find no quote - care to share a link? can't seem to find it in Deutsche Welle (DW.com), Der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Politico Europe, Reuters (German politics section), Associated Press

I'd be interested in reading the full account.
 
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I can find no quote - care to share a link? can't seem to find it in Deutsche Welle (DW.com), Der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Politico Europe, Reuters (German politics section), Associated Press

I'd be interested in reading the full account.

Apparently it was said in radio.
 
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Apparently it was said in radio.
Reported the same thing here in local news about it. Rubio just talked more nicely, but that's it and nothing has really changed and EU will continue to distance itself from the USA. The 40 (I think it was 40) nation trade deal Canada is working on is just one more sign of this.
 
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Apparently it was said in radio.
If you have eyes and can see, it's very clearly a very tepid response.

The way it's being spoken about by Trump supporters on here you'd think they were worshiping rubio.
 
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Ovationen für Rubio: Deutsche Politiker rechtfertigen sich
Thank you - I also found it here: .jungewelt.de

Almost like he is trying to cover his hind quarters with those in his government who have the same vitriolic dissonance towards the President
 
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Greatness? He is ruthless to his own heritage.

FYI
Cuba is currently facing a severe and deepening humanitarian crisis that United Nations experts warn is nearing a total socio-economic collapse.
Following the enactment of U.S. Executive Order 14380 in late January 2026, which imposed a fuel blockade and tariffs on third-party oil suppliers, the island has been paralyzed by critical shortages of energy, food, and medicine.
Current Conditions
* Health and Water: Over 80% of water pumping equipment depends on electricity, leading to widespread loss of safe water and sanitation. Intensive care units and emergency rooms are compromised, and a lack of refrigeration is ruining essential vaccines and blood products.
* Food Scarcity: The fuel shortage has disrupted the harvesting of crops and the national food rationing system, leaving many Cubans hungry.
* Infrastructure Collapse: Rolling blackouts of up to 20 hours occur daily. Schools and universities have been closed, public transport has largely ceased, and garbage is piling up in cities because trash trucks lack fuel.
* Public Health: Cases of dengue, chikungunya, and the Oropouche virus are surging due to the breakdown of municipal waste and sanitation systems.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed extreme worry over the "disproportionate impact" on vulnerable groups, including children and the elderly. Many nations, including Canada and the UK, have advised against all non-essential travel to the island as it struggles with these catastrophic shortages.

Secretary Rubio effectively launders the devastating humanitarian impact of the U.S. fuel blockade through a lens of 'statutory necessity,' dismissing the starvation of the Cuban people as an inevitable byproduct of the regime’s own 'intransigence' while simultaneously using his Cuban heritage to moralize a strategy of asphyxiation that he frames as a liberation, rather than a cause, of the island's collapse
Cuba's communist regime is the reason that Cuba is in dire straits.
 
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Reported the same thing here in local news about it. Rubio just talked more nicely, but that's it and nothing has really changed and EU will continue to distance itself from the USA. The 40 (I think it was 40) nation trade deal Canada is working on is just one more sign of this.
If the EU distances themselves from the USA, then I hope that the EU can defend themselves against Russia and China.
 
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Cuba's communist regime is the reason that Cuba is in dire straits.
What would you say that they are “doing wrong” (you know, besides being communists)?
What should their first steps to “recovery” be?
 
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If the EU distances themselves from the USA, then I hope that the EU can defend themselves against Russia and China.
I hope that we will be expanding those capabilities, as well, independent of the state of relations between the EU and the USA.
 
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