Secretary of State Marco Rubio told NBC News on Sunday that if the war continued between Russia and Ukraine, Americans wouldn't be impacted. However, Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence, called it false.
"Now, the President has traveled all the way to Alaska, all the way back, has dedicated months and months of work – him, our entire team – on this matter because we want to see an end to the war," Rubio told Kristen Welker.
"But if tomorrow the war continues, life in America will not be fundamentally altered. So I think that what we have to understand is that this has been a priority for this President because he wants to promote peace. He wants to promote the end of a war," claimed Rubio. "And I think we should be happy that we have a President that’s trying to promote peace and bring a war to an end."
That's not at all the case, according to Gordon. "I just can't abide."
"The notion that we consider ourselves so isolated and so smugly powerful that the world could endure a strong man taking the land of a sovereign nation just because he wanted it, and we stood by and let it happen," Gordon lamented.
She was appearing on Nicolle Wallace's "Deadline: White House" from self-ruled Taiwan, where there is always the threat of China asserting itself over the tiny island.
"So, this notion that this isn't an interest for the United States, people, I think, fundamentally misunderstands how connected we are, really are," said Gordon.
"And our history, I mean, you know, proud military families are proud of their grandparents' service. You know, grandmother who was a nurse in some instances, if it was World War II or grandfather who fought, I mean, it just totally. Marco Rubio seeks to totally erase our history as the good guys," Wallace agreed.
Wallace noted that everyone knew that would come from President Donald Trump in a second term, "but for Marco Rubio, it's galling."
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