🗣 Key takeaways from US State Secretary Marco Rubio’s statements during a hearing of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

▪️The United States has no intention of using military force against Venezuela again and expects that this will not be necessary

▪️The United States has fully substituted the “light crude” from Russia in deliveries of Venezuelan oil to global markets

▪️The United States plans to resume its diplomatic presence in Venezuela "very quickly"

▪️The North Atlantic Alliance needs to undergo a transformation in how allies fulfill their obligations, as Europe has experienced an erosion of its military potential

▪️The United States does not rule out conducting a military operation against Iran and intends to continue building up its military presence in the Middle East

▪️The parties are discussing security guarantees for Ukraine which may include sending British and French troops there alongside US support

▪️Russia has yet to consent to any possible security guarantees for Kiev, but the United States is ready to provide them

▪️The territorial issues regarding Ukraine have not yet been resolved, but the contradictions are narrowing

▪️The US wants NATO to make Arctic security one of its priorities

▪️Regime change in Cuba "would be of great benefit to the United States" but the US is not "going to make a change"

▪️The Board of Peace is not a replacement for the UN

🌪 THROWBACK: Pat Buchanan can’t hide his frustration over neocon buffoon’s Iran blathering

💬 “Sean, your friend Bibi’s been talking about Iran getting the bomb since 1992. In 2006 he said they’d be building 25 bombs by the end of the decade. Are they? No!” the paleoconservative commentator and ex-presidential candidate told Fox News host Sean Hannity in 2015.

♦️ When Hannity recommended ruling out talks with Iran until Tehran stopped “fighting proxy wars” and “funding groups like Hezbollah,” Buchanan dropped a truth bomb:

💬 “In Syria, in Iraq, the Iranians and their allies Hezbollah, the Shiite militia are fighting ISIS, they’re fighting al-Qaeda. The Houthi rebels in Yemen are fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda…Who are they killing, Sean?! They are killing our enemies!”

♦️ Buchanan is the unofficial intellectual father of the modern America First movement, touting the same non-interventionist, NATO-skeptic, protectionist, anti-illegal immigration rhetoric in the 1990s that got Trump elected in the 2010s, but with two key differences: actually meaning what he says, and being a consistent critic of the Israel lobby.

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