As promised, here are the key points from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has spoken to US media outlets this morning.
- This is “not a war against Venezuela”, he says - this follows strikes on the country on Saturday and the extraction of its president, Nicolás Maduro
- The US will judge Venezuela by “what they do” next, Rubio says, adding that Washington will keep “multiple levers of leverage” to protect its interests
- Speaking to ABC, Rubio says congressional authorisation wasn’t needed before the operation “because this wasn’t an invasion”
- He says that he hopes Maduro’s removal will lead to “a better Venezuela”, but adds that the “number one objective is America”
- Asked whether he thinks Interim President Delcy Rodríguez is now the legitimate president of Venezuela, he says the US does not believe the regime is legitimate
You believe Russian asset Tusli Gabbard over the IAEA, the UN nuclear watchdog?
You mean the IAEA led by US manipulated Rafael Grossi who was sending details of Iranian nuclear scientists to Mossad for their kill lists, whose number was in Ehud Barak’s phone? That IAEA?
So you just repeat propaganda by an authoritarian regime that has killed 16,000 (and counting!) of it’s citizens in the last few weeks?
Do you work for that regime by any chance? Fair question, given you think a Nobel Laureate that could someday be the Secretary General of the UN is a Mossad agent. Are you an agent of the current Iranian regime?