Your contradiction is blatant. You claim to “appreciate the brave and courageous people of Ukraine”, but you are grateful to Trump who so obviously supports Putin.
Are you with Ukraine & the West or with Trump & Putin?
You must choose, if you are honest.Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC)Very much appreciate the brave and courageous people of Ukraine. I enjoyed my important conversation today with President Zelensky and Senator Blumenthal. It is in our nation’s interest for Ukraine to survive and thrive. I believe more pressure on Putin is necessary. I am very grateful for the hard work of President Trump and his team to end the bloodbath. It will pay off.President Zelensky indicated the bipartisan Russia sanctions bill would be a great help and President Trump is fully onboard.
To those who buy cheap Russian oil propping up Putin’s war machine, the price is about to go up.— https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/2011230497176011029
— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) Jan 14, 2026
Month: January 2026
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NEW from @nytimes: Venezuela has released several American citizens from prison, the first such detainees to be freed since US troops attacked Venezuela on Jan. 3 on Trump’s orders and seized Maduro. At least 3 Americans have been freed as of Tuesday night, one person said. pic.twitter.com/JZAk0Y0zLQ
— Edward Wong (@ewong) January 14, 2026
Finally, here is another oft-heard observation about Rubio. Some of the worst decisions made in his ever-expanding fiefdoms (hiring a racist lunatic Duginist to gut the Global Engagement Center, sanctioning former EU officials and disinformation experts, possibly granting visas to Duma deputies to make Rep. Ana Paulina Luna look even more of a twit than she already does) are said to be compromises he has had to make to remain within the good graces of the MAGA ideologues and to keep his own preferred functionaries from being ousted. Rubio’s relationship with Susie Wiles here is key. And it’s no coincidence he was one of the few figures she didn’t disparage in that Vanity Fair piece.
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) Jan 14, 2026
The Europeans, perhaps a little too wishfully, agree with this assessment. They are trying to mitigate the damage the U.S. is doing to transatlanticism and NATO and the European Union and can’t afford to adopt the oppositional stance of American political actors. This frustrates many in America’s commentariat, myself included sometimes. But one understands their imperative. They reckon this White House is better with Rubio in it than not. Meanwhile, career Foreign Service types and Democrats who got on with Rubio in the Senate and voted to confirm him as Secretary of State see only a cynical opportunist who gutted USAID, betrayed Venezuelan dissidents by cozying up to Rodriguez, and is maybe about to sign off on the illegal annexation of Greenland. The Second Coming of John McCain this is not.
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) Jan 14, 2026
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s former foreign minister (and a keen student of U.S. politics as I discovered when I met him in Kyiv), sees Rubio as a bulwark against this administration’s worst pro-Kremlin tendencies. Kuleba is not alone.
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) Jan 14, 2026