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Marco Rubio: “It happened just a few months after the fiasco in…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Interview with Marco Rubio on US Foreign Policy and Ukraine Conflict

Published | Video Starts at 04:57

This invasion would have never happened if Donald Trump were in the White House. But it did. It happened after Joe Biden. It happened just a few months after the fiasco in Afghanistan. And I think everyone realizes Putin saw that and said, now's my time to go. I have a weak president under Joe Biden. And he went, and this war dragged on for three years. (04:57–05:02)

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Asserts that the invasion of Ukraine occurred shortly after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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