Since Donny took office…the US has threatened Canada and Greenland, allowed the genocide in Gaza and the theft in the West Bank to go unchecked and now is trying to involve the nation in the stupidity that Israel has wrought.
What has happened to diplomacy?
The art of negotiation to settle international conflicts has died and it began with the Trump’s first try at world domination with some random oil guy in charge the came Biden and his SecState Blinken who was more warmonger than anything and now we have Rubio under the second Trump directorate…. in essence diplomacy is no longer and option on the world stage.
This brings us to today’s State Department under the ‘leadership’ of Rubio and under his hand the department is dying slowly on the whims of the self-promoter Donny.
There is no more important or prestigious cabinet position than the secretary of state. The first secretaries included such luminaries as Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Clay. All became presidents or almost reached the presidency. In contemporary times, secretaries of state included Henry Stimson, George Marshall, Dean Acheson, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, and John Kerry. More recent secretaries have been less competent or successful (Rex Tillerson, Mike Pompeo), but no one has been more pathetic than the current secretary, Marco Rubio, who has embarrassed the country, the Department of State, and particularly himself in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency.
Rubio has made the Department of State virtually irrelevant, playing no role in key negotiations involving wars between Russia and Ukraine as well as between Israel and the Palestinians. Rubio is not participating in the sensitive talks between the United States and Iran to restore the Iran nuclear agreement. All of these matters are being handled by a billionaire real-estate developer, Steve Witkoff, who has no experience or knowledge in dealing with any of these issues. But Witkoff is worth $2 billion, and presumably Trump felt that clinching real estate deals is good training for crafting complicated international agreements.
Witkoff has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin four times in the past several months, but the Russian bombardment against Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, has only increased in that period. We know very little about Witkoff’s experiences in these meetings, but we do know that Trump falsely believes that Putin has made key “concessions.” The first concession, according to Trump, is that Putin will be “stopping the war.” The second is even more risible: Putin has agreed “not to take the whole country.” Even before the Putin-Witkoff talks, Trump endorsed Putin’s key demands: “Crimea will stay with Russia,” and Ukraine “will never be able to join NATO.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/29/marco-rubio-and-the-death-of-diplomacy/
You will noticed that Rubio and his master Donny have little to say about the conflict in Sudan or the total ethnic cleansing of Gaza….these should be high on the list of things to spotlight but instead Rubio is bust illustrating just how incompetent he is and nods approval for everything ignorant from Donny’s mouth.
Rubio is suppose to be America’s top diplomat and instead he allows Vance and Donny to speak for him.
When he took office he stated that it was to promote national interests….that is not his job. He said that “to advance our national interest, we will build a more innovative, nimble, and focused State Department. This will require replacing some priorities, deemphasizing some issues, and eliminating some practices.”
Rubio has also called for a return to traditional diplomacy, deemphasizing what he views as divisive political and cultural causes. He has pledged to combat censorship and protect free speech, while also reprioritizing truth. On the environmental front, Rubio has promised to support sensible environmental protections while using diplomacy to advance American energy dominance.
He has done none of that lame ass promises….
Diplomacy is an instrument of power. It is essential for maintaining effective international relationships, and a principal means by which the United States defends its interests, responds to crises, and achieves its foreign policy goals.
Read more of the mission of the state department….https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/d/rm/rls/perfrpt/2002/html/18942.htm
For over a century the yes of the world have been on the US and now under the leadership of Rubio and his clueless master the US is going from global domination to global irrelevancy….
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As the titular leader of this group of MAGA misfits, Trump projects a “transactional” approach to international diplomacy, which he wants to use to replace the American strategy for building global peace that the US adopted after World War II and that has succeeded remarkably since then in avoiding major conflict in a nuclear armed world.
Trump’s theory holds that the United States should forget about the rest of the world, and that we should avoid engaging in any action unless a maximum payment in cold cash can be exacted in exchange. Trump sees America’s traditional efforts to secure and guarantee world peace and eliminate global poverty as nothing less than an invitation to be taken for a sucker.
Previous administrations, Trump believes, were weak fools enabling the rest of the world to take advantage of American generosity. It makes no difference to Trump that the US profited enormously by its investments in Europe, or that helping emerging Third World nations opened access for American products to global markets and increased American influence in practically every corner of the planet. Sure, the US gained unprecedented stature as the world’s most powerful economy, but Trump thinks we should have asked for more.
While turning the US from a promoter of human rights and abandoning America’s role as a committed supporter of global free-market capitalism, Trump wants to go back to a world in which “might makes right,” and in which the powerful do as they want, while the less fortunate are left to do as they must.
Trump’s Chaos Moving America From Global Dominance Toward Global Irrelevance
In conclusion American diplomacy is dying a slow death and the “America First” agenda that Rubio so hardily embraced just may be that proverbial final nail in the coffin.
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“lego ergo scribo”
I’m not sticking up for Trump here, but geez – one day we complain that the US should not feel we can tell another country what to do and then turn around and say we let things go unchecked. Do you think Netanyahu is that easily controlled? haha
No but he is that easily controlling. chuq
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Confusion? BiBi controls most of Congress…..and is controlling the thinking of much of the US chuq
Who is controlling the thoughts of the mob mentality going on lately? I know you approve of it, but now the mobs grow even at the Read trial.
DT has no diplomatic skills at all, he is too petulant. If nobody agrees with him he just threatens to use force. He should remember that the US has not defeated a sovereign state on it’s own since the invasion of Grenada, but he seems to be dragging the UK into war with Iran too. The price of fuel has already increased in Britain.
Best wishes, Pete.
He watches TV, yells at his sycophants, runs to a mike makes a smug face then off to the golf course….that is is foreign policy…..chuq
Diplomacy is nothing more than a useless tactic intended to resolve disputes but all it ever does is prolong the inevitable disastrous destruction and death of war.
Johnj, unfortunately your assessment is true reality. Iran used diplomacy to obscrue their true intent and to buy time to amass more weapons of mass destruction. Iran has never abided with diplomacy’s alleged agreements and cheat at every element of diplomacy. They don’t abide by international law of the West for the West “is the agent of Satan” and therefore they have no recognition that diplomacy is supposed to govern the rules of the participants. That religion says contracts with infidels are non binding and may be ignored and broken without shame or guilt.
I disagree….diplomacy works when they want it to work and that has not happened for decades. chuq
Diplomacy with Iran and its proxies ? How would that manifest ? Iran and proxies agree to murder only half of the Jewish people now and kill the rest in future increments? Seems assholes like Kerry and Obama think that’s a success and a vindication of diplomacy.
Again….after years of chest thumping by US war hawks what would you say? Why do you conservs hate diplomacy so damn much….like you would rather see Americans die doing stupid shit like in Vietnam and Iraq…..war is more preferable? Sad chuq
American death for oil is the model and it is disgraceful. They rarely have died “protecting our freedoms” as the neocons and capitalist would have us believe. As for Vietnam, I will curse Lyndon Johnson from beyond my grave.
Actually it was Ike that got the ball rolling in Vietnam….but any deaths now will be for oil just as Iraq was in 2003. chuq
Don’t need diplomacy. Trump is making Mideast and Europe and US financial and economic unified world block. Rest of world will have to follow this block’s dictates so diplomacy not needed. The Kerry, Obama, democrat diplomacy with just Iran alone is an embarrassing joke. American diplomacy efforts seems like our “unconditional surrender” and self subjugation to everyone. I would credit Nixon/Kissinger diplomacy to craft an end game for Vietnam War and bringing our soldiers home esp POWs.
We always need diplomacy…what are describing is what Mao said…”political power grows from the barrel of a gun”…be careful or they will start calling you a Marxist. chuq