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But Rubio showed division,
right away within the US negotiating team, which is of course a sign of weakness when your Secretary of State basically protests even showing up in the first place.
So he doesn't go to Switzerland.
There appears to be some progress made in Switzerland.
And a deconfliction cell, as it's called, is created in order to try to deconflict, to enforce the ceasefire in Lebanon as Netanyahu continued to attack within Lebanon, killing lots of innocent people.
And the Lebanon file, as they call it, pretty much got removed away from
Rubio, Netanyahu, and Lebanon in that kind of structure.
And it got moved towards Iran, Qatar, Pakistan, Lebanon, United States, working together as part of a de-confliction cell.
And so Rubio viewed that also as, are you trying to take away the Lebanon file from me, JD Vance?
No, I am going to be dealing with Lebanon.
Well,
You could have showed up at Switzerland if you wanted to and been involved in those talks, but you were trying to sabotage it then as well.
So what Rubio's done, though, is he's announced that he's going to take a trip and he's on that trip right now to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain.
You see the U.S.
Department of State post right here.
Secretary Rubio's travel to the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain.
June 23rd through June 25th.
Here's how they describe it on the State Department website.
Again, he couldn't be bothered with the Switzerland talks, but now he's going to meet with the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain.
And it says, the Secretary will discuss a range of regional priorities