Michael Weiss

He did it in his Munich speech where he said the only mention of Ukraine was once in the substance of the speech that came later in the Q&A.

But with respect to Ukraine, he brought it up in the context of, you know, the U.N.

has failed and only Donald Trump is trying to bring these two parties to the table.

But it's a, quote, still elusive piece, still elusive piece from the word the lips of Marco Rubio means nothing.

Don't pay much attention to this bullshit process that Witkow, Kushner are engaged in with the Russians, and which now the Ukrainians are engaged in directly with the Russians.

The U.S.

intelligence assessment of Russia is that Putin maintains maximalist ambitions.

He wants the entirety of the country, and he's basically using the peace process as a way to just kind of prolong this whole thing, to keep sanctions at bay, to keep Trump from doing something provocative or untoward that would do more damage to Russia.

It's a pantomime.

It's not serious diplomacy.

Rubio gets this.

The problem is he sold his soul to Donald Trump.

He gets up and he is such the courtier.

He so flatters Trump.

He's almost indistinguishable from Vance in the effusive praise.

He literally puts Donald Trump to sleep, right?

Why is he doing this?

Like, what is the grand design here?

And if I had to make a guess, and some of this is a little bit educated from reporting I've done, the guess is these are, in his mind, necessary compromises.

necessary compromises of his principles and his beliefs in order to get the things that he most wants done.