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Trump and the Senate Are Headed for War

• AntiWar.com by David Kowalski

At his hearing, Tillerson met a fiery response from senators who expressed disgust over his ties to Russia's Vladimir Putin. Tillerson came under particularly harsh scrutiny from Marco Rubio, who grilled the Secretary of State nominee over Russian involvement in the Democratic Party hacks and was "troubled" by Tillerson's reluctance to support automatic sanctions against nations accused of launching cyberattacks against the U.S. Rubio also condemned Tillerson's uncertainty over keeping the sanctions leveled against Russia in response to the hacks and refusal to call Putin a "war criminal." Sadly, for all his bluster and bravado, Rubio went ahead and endorsed the Committee's nomination of Tillerson on January 23rd.

The irony of Rubio (and several of his colleagues) taking Tillerson through the ringer is that the former Exxon chief actually broke with Trump on Russia, calling the invasion of Crimea illegal and asserting that he would have armed Ukraine with defensive weapons.


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