It's just very easy now for anyone to do it. You don't have to be a big nation-state.
Marco Rubio
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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
The biggest step taken to date toward making this historic route a reality, advancing peace, and increasing prosperity in Armenia and throughout the region.
Anyone providing services to these sanctioned actors is at risk of sanctions themselves.
Today, we are targeting the network that enables and funds Cuba's subversive and radical operations.
Cuba is a failed state incapable of reform under the current leadership.
Cuba was a 'failed state' incapable of reform under the current leadership.
I want to get this solved. I'll be engaged in getting it solved. I don't know of the time, but I mean shortly.
Is this the Foreign Affairs Committee, or is this like a circus? What is this?
What kind of thing is this? What is this? You know, you get asked questions for five minutes and you don't get time to answer. It's not a hearing.
Not once. Just to be clear, not a single time, not even for a millisecond, has the president ever discussed his personal economics and relations to war or any public policy that he's made, for that matter.
I mean, is this the Foreign Affairs Committee or is this, like, a circus? What is this?
Ultimately, any deal we do will be a good deal, or there won't be a deal, and it'll be better than JCPOA.
We're still in NATO, but NATO needs significant changes, and the president has made that clear.
The president's view is that it's a lot easier to defend it when you have control and complete control of it.
It's not where it needs to be, but it is a long ways from where it was five months ago and poses not nearly the threat it once posed to America's national security. We're not satisfied with where it is, but we've come a long way.
I don't even know how to respond to that other than to tell you that it's absurd and ridiculous.
Reopening the strait is the predicate that opens the door to phase two of negotiations.





