This is what crowd out looks like.

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It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

Gen Keith Kellogg, Trump's original Ukraine envoy (the appointment was vetoed by Putin) says that Ukraine should ignore Trump's request and continue its bombardment of Russian refineries, pipelines and storage facilities.

Racism got him here and he’s clinging to it like his life ring — it’s all he’s ever had, the gateway corruption from which all others flow — and look how far it’s got him and how horribly it’s cost us.

Again, I never again want to hear the Republicans claim the mantle of, or be referred to as, the "party of national security." This, as with threatening to invade our NATO allies, should have long ago immediately ended his presidency. It also should again now.

'Fukuyama has produced a book emblematic of a “centrism” still proudly fighting the last brushfires of the twentieth century long after the wildfires of the twenty-first have swept by them...'

Meanwhile, against the backdrop of the Acropolis, Rubio lectures "the West"... that there is nothing wrong with thinking about yourself first. For that's what the ancient Athenians were like, or so he says. Maybe. One thing is clear: they were fiercely anti-corruption.

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In Haaretz:

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Also a distinction dear to reactionary centrists:

"Rubio also hailed the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés as an heir to the Athenian concept of exploring and pursuing knowledge for knowledge’s sake. Cortes is viewed much differently in Latin America..."

"Rubio also hailed the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés as an heir to the Athenian concept of exploring and pursuing knowledge for knowledge’s sake. Cortes is viewed much differently in Latin America..."