Marco Rubio
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We also have security agreements, the Defense of Israel Plan and others, that requires to have a forced posture in the region to defend against that.
And so I think it's wise and prudent to have a forced posture within the region that could respond and potentially, not necessarily what's going to happen, but if necessary, preemptively prevent the attack against thousands of American servicemen and other facilities in the region and our allies.
I hope it doesn't come to that.
But that's, I think, what you're seeing now is the ability to posture assets in the region to defend against what could be an Iranian threat
Well, I think your question is about the... And I will acknowledge you've been very consistent on all these points the entire career.
So...
No matter who's in charge.
So I will point to two things.
The first is it's hard for us to conceive that an operation that lasted about four and a half hours and was a law enforcement operation to capture someone we don't recognize as a head of state, indicted in the United States, wanted with a $50 million ballot.
We just don't believe that this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition of war.
Regime change?
Yes.
Oh no, I think we would love to see the regime there change.
That doesn't mean that we're going to make it change, but we would love to see it change.
Yeah, but that's statutory.
The Helms-Burton Act, the U.S.
embargo on Cuba is codified.
It was codified in law, and it requires regime change in order for us to lift the embargo.
It's not our funds.
The funds are in an account that's owned and signed.