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It doesn’t bode well that the next U.S. Secretary of State begins his top-flight position in government by telling blatant lies and fatuities.

Marco Rubio (53) is a sure bet to be confirmed as America’s most senior international envoy representing the new administration of President Donald Trump, who will be inaugurated in the White House on Monday.

This week, Florida Senator Rubio appeared before the Senate in confirmation hearings for his post. Rubio has been a senator since 2011 and has served on foreign relations and intelligence committees. Despite bitter personal clashes with Trump in the 2016 presidential campaign, Rubio was picked for the top diplomat post in the incoming administration. The confirmation is a done deal given his deep connections in Congress among Republicans and Democrats.

The ambitious son of Cuban immigrants is known for his hawkish views. He previously called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “thug” and described Russia as a “gangster state with nuclear weapons.”

Any future trips to Moscow will be awkward to say the least, especially when the “tough guy” Floridian meets a real diplomat like Russia’s Sergei Lavrov.

Strangely, though, this week, Rubio projected himself as the voice of reason and diplomacy. It was quite a U-turn.

He told the Senate committee that the top priority of the Trump administration will be to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. That view aligns with Trump’s oft-expressed desire for a settlement to the three-year conflict.

There’s a lot to parse in Rubio’s weasel words.

He informed senators: ”It should be the official policy of the United States that we want to see it [the war] end… This is not going to be an easy endeavor… My hope is that it could begin with some ceasefire.”

Rubio was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the Ukrainian regime, believing that it would inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.

Now, he has suddenly been overcome with seeming prudence and concern for peace by declaring that Ukraine cannot possibly win against Russia.

Rubio went on: “In order to achieve objectives like the one that needs to occur in Ukraine, it is important for everyone to be realistic. There will have to be concessions made by the Russian Federation, but also by the Ukrainians, and the United States lends itself there. It’s also important that there be some balance on both sides.”

So, you see what’s happening here. Rubio is uncharacteristically sounding like a peace envoy – after years of spouting belligerence towards Russia – and sneakily setting up the United States to be a kind of broker between two warring parties. Note how he advocates concessions by both sides – Ukraine and Russia – without mentioning that the U.S. is a principal party to the conflict (albeit by using proxy Ukraine).

He appeals to people to be “realistic” because Ukraine can’t win and it is “running out of Ukrainians.” This is after Rubio and countless other hawkish politicians in Washington pushed this war to the destruction of Ukraine, with over one million casualties from far superior Russian firepower. Rubio and his imperialist warmongering ilk have pushed this proxy war at the risk of inciting a nuclear conflagration with Russia.

But it was the bit when Rubio tried to sound like the innocent diplomat deploring violence that peaked contempt for this pathetic Yes Man.

After acknowledging that the United States has supplied Ukraine with $175 billion in total aid, including at least $65 billion in military, since the eruption of conflict in February 2022, Rubio complained that it was “never clearly delineated what the end goal of the conflict was.”

He added: “What exactly were we funding? What exactly were we putting money towards? On many occasions, it sounded like ‘however much it takes for however long it takes’. That is not a realistic or prudent position.”

Marco Rubio is a liar. He knows full well from his deep involvement in U.S. imperialist machinations that the plan was to sponsor a NeoNazi regime in Kiev since the CIA-backed in 2014 to wage war on Russia for its calculated strategic defeat and conquest.

Washington bankrolled Ukrainian fascists to do its dirty work. That’s exactly what it was funding. Now Rubio is pretending that it was all some kind of misadventure that needs to be brought to a settlement.

The funding of the Kiev regime by the United States and the European Union to the tune of at least $300 billion combined was not only about trying to destroy Russia and exploit its post-war vast natural wealth.

The capital funneled into Ukraine was also a gargantuan laundering scheme whereby hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ money was sluiced to the Western military-industrial complex. These companies then reward their political pimps with hefty campaign donations.

Another huge aspect of the war racket was that Western capital was given a free hand to plunder the resources of Ukraine under the propped-up regime. Wall Street banks, private investment companies, agribusiness, and mining corporations have bought up Ukraine’s territory for knockdown prices facilitated by the Kiev regime. Western vulture capitalists like BlackRock are massive financial donors to politicians in Washington, including the sniveling Rubio.

So bankrolling the Russia-hating NeoNazi regime was always a well-planned investment that has made a lot of people wealthy even though Ukraine has been decimated.

The main objective of defeating Russia has not gone well, though. Russian forces are steadily wiping out the NATO-backed regime despite the weapons flowing from the U.S.-led alliance.

That’s why Rubio is now appearing as a peace envoy calling for the war to end. He only wants the war to end because Russia has delivered an embarrassing debacle to the American war machine.

But note how Rubio is proposing a “ceasefire” and “compromise”. That amounts to the U.S. and its NATO accomplices imposing a frozen conflict on Russia, which can be reignited in the future.

Moscow has already made it clear that the proxy conflict pertains to a much bigger picture and commensurate solution. Russia insists on keeping its reclaimed historic territories of Crimea, Donbas and Novorossiya; the Kiev NeoNazi regime must be eradicated; any new Ukrainian state must be neutral and never part of NATO; and the NATO alliance has to negotiate a wholesale new security treaty for Europe, one that forbids aggression and expansionism and respects Russia’s national security and rights.

That’s the objective reality check that the Trump administration needs to deal with.

Russia will win the U.S.-led NATO proxy war on Russia’s terms. Marco Rubio better practice getting real if he wants to be a top diplomat rather than the duplicitous hawk he has been for most of his career.