We support sanctions to individuals that have committed crimes and are accused of corruption, and we need more economic pressure on a government that is investing the money it earns through the natural resources that belong to the people to fight and kill that very same people.
Rubio advocates for sanctions against corrupt Venezuelan officials.
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The United States is always committed to diplomacy. We are open-minded and always willing to engage in negotiated settlements of differences.
If that is threatened, then I think the global economy is threatened, and the rules which have underpinned 150 years of international trade and commerce are also threatened, and that cannot be allowed to happen.
They can call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist, communist, anarchist or Marxist.
What is at stake here is not simply the issue of what’s happening in the Straits of Hormuz. It’s a very fundamental principle about freedom of navigation.
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