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Marco Rubio: “The entire electric grid, the entire infrastructure of…”

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

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LIVE: Secretary of State Marco Rubio holds year-end news conference

Published | Video Starts at 1:07:59

I'll tell you why. This week, 8,9000 people will die, including like 5 or 6,000 weekly Russian casualties. Okay? In a war, this is a bloody, nasty conflict. In the same time, The entire electric grid, the entire infrastructure of Ukraine is being destroyed almost as fast as it's being rebuilt. Every week that goes by, the cost of rebuilding that country gets exponentially higher. It is now becoming generational reconstruction. This is a very damaging war that's going to have incredible implications. (1:07:59–1:08:07)

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