Marco Rubio's Year-End Briefing

5 Takeaways From Rubio’s Year-End Briefing

The 5 points that wer discussed are as follows:

1. Venezuela and Narco-Terrorism--“The single most serious threat to the United States in the Western Hemisphere is from transnational terrorist criminal groups primarily focused on narco-trafficking,” he said
2. Cooperating With Colombia--Rubio said the Trump administration will not let Petro impede ties between Colombia and the United States
3. Resolving the Israel-Gaza Conflict--Rubio said that only a negotiated settlement can end the war, as neither side is looking to surrender
4. Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks
5. Europe’s Defense Spending--Trump has pushed NATO members to increase their defense spending by 5 percent of their GDP by 2035

“One of the reasons why President Trump was elected is sort of an understanding among the American people that our foreign policy was in need of a complete recalibration because the world has dramatically changed,” he said.

“Many of the institutions, policies, assumptions that our foreign policy was operating under were built upon a world that no longer existed, and it required us to re-examine that.”

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