Marco Rubio on the hot seat in the middle of Trump team upgrade in Ukraine

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio is larger than ever in a quickly developing white house. He has become the face of President Donald Trump's threats to give Ukraine, massive abroad abroad and a deportation policy that shared the public.

Trump even named him together with Vice President JD Vance as a possible Maga successor of 2028.

Rubio has now taken the role of the national security advisor and has set the unique Trump rival for an even greater role in Trump's foreign policy. He is only the second person who held both positions at the same time. (The other was Henry Kissinger.)

But the survey is associated with danger to Rubios political career: Trump's had five national security advisors since he was elected for the first time in 2016 – all of them were deported.

“Marco Rubio will be in a very difficult position over time,” said ASA Hutchinson's former governor of Arkansas, who served as a sub -secretary of the homeland protection authority. “I don't think he feels very comfortable to prefer Russia in the negotiations with Ukraine or alienate our allies – and yet he is in the Trump administration.”

How Rubio is balanced his own Hawkian views of Russia and Trump's wish to end the Ukraine war at all costs is crucial for his credibility at home and abroad. Senators who voted for the confirmation of Rubio say they are disappointed, although they admit that it is better to have him in negotiations on the future of Ukraine than not.

Rubio supported Ukraine aid at the beginning of the war, but shifted his position in 2024 when Trump's presidential campaign started. He rejected the recent round of military help and said the United States should concentrate on border security.

Michael Allen, who worked under the former President George W. Bush in the National Security Council, said it was clear that Rubio, despite “Hawkian tendencies earlier in his career”, became more open to Trump's worldview.

“I think he discovered that part of the attraction for Donald Trump in the age of populism was a reflection that the American people no longer want great wars,” he said.

The shift was exhibited the day before Trump in a cabinet seat, which increased Rubio to the national security consultant. Rubio spoke the cuts and deportations of state efficiency (Department of Government Efficiency) (Doge). He said Trump that he had eliminated an office that dossiers held on Americans and considered whether the disinformation was delivered – including at least one non -identified member of the cabinet.

Trump turned to Rubio and patted his arm. “Thank you very much, Marco,” he said. “Really great job.”

The next day, Trump removed Michael Waltz as a national security advisor and gave Rubio on an intermediate basis.

“When I have a problem, I call Marco, he gets it solving,” said Trump, hours before the change, with a prayer spoke.

A difficult place for Trump's main spokesman for foreign policy speakers

In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the spokesman Tammy Bruce “did not disturb” her phones before her briefing on May 1st.

Within a few minutes, a reporter informed her that Trump had typed Rubio as a replacement for waltzes.

“It is clear that I just heard that of them,” said Bruce, adding that she had “had some insights” in the move. “Things don't happen when the president says that he will happen.”

In the days since then, experts have questioned whether Rubio can effectively operate the Foreign Ministry, the National Security Council and the US Agency for International Development, for which he also took responsibility.

Senator Mark Warner, who classified the Democrat in the intelligence agency, who supported Rubios nomination, told CNN: “I don't know how someone could do these two big jobs.” That and his role as the head of the USA, he said: “Even for a Marco Rubio, I think it's too much.”

Bruce called Rubio a “very involved, energetic man”.

“If someone can sure it can … it will be Marco Rubio,” she said.

Rubio, a former Senator from Florida, was the first member of Trump's second cabinet that was confirmed and received a vote of 99: 0 from his colleagues on the inauguration.

“He is respected by everyone. And we estimate that they voted for Marco,” Trump said in early March of his joint speech to the congress.

Now some democratic senators have the repentance of buyers.

The Senator of Maryland, Chris van Hollen, who aggressively met with the administration against the illegal deportation of the Salvadoranian National Kilmar Abrego Garcia, says he regretted the election to confirm Rubio.

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Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA, said USA today that Rubio was a “big disappointment”.

Nevertheless, Kaine said: “There were a few things I thought, okay, I see Marco Rubio I know?”

Kaine said he suspected that Rubio Pete Marocco, the Trump officer who supervised the leveling of USAID from the Foreign Ministry. “I think that was something that Marco Rubios fingerprints had on it.”

“And I think that was a very important step because I think Marocco was a real disaster,” he said.

A “kingdom of the ashes”

The Democrats brewed the trigger of more than 80 billion US dollars foreign support at the behest of Doge without the consent of the congress.

During a hearing last month that the Foreign Minister, the democrat Gregory Meeks, DN.Y., ranked, said Rubio had twisted to justify Trump's actions.

“In my opinion, there is no greater demonstration of this incredible cowardice than that of secretary Rubio who knows that this is wrong,” said Meeks. “He knows that it is wrong, but would rather sit in a kingdom of the ashes than to defend the work he once praised.”

Senate Democrats who worked closely with Rubio were in vain.

Senator Chris Coons, a leading democrat in the committee for external relationships, said: “There are things about how he has the water of the Trump government in some very poor strategic decisions with which I am very dissatisfied.”

Nevertheless, Cons recognized his disagreements with Rubio, “relating to President Trump and his decisions”.

Kaine took a similar position. “I understand that it is the policy of the president,” said the Democrat. “He will be better in the room in Ukraine than some other people who were considered for the role.”

A critical time for Ukraine – and for Rubio

The determination of Trump's position on the Russia's war against Ukraine is the most critical of Rubios tasks.

Rubio has been saying for weeks that Trump “continues” from the negotiations in the direction of a deal to end a war that the president once bragged, which he could solve on a single day.

“We have to find out here within a few days whether this is feasible at short notice. Because if this is not the case, we will simply continue,” said Rubio after a round with the Ukrainian government in Paris on April 18.

For Rubio it was an important turn, the participation of which was subdued in Ukraine talks when Trump's special representative Steve Witkoff had been moved with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Since Witkoff took the lead to Middle East conflicts and said Waltz, Rubio and Trump are now the public faces of the US efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine.

In Paris, the United States presented a framework contract that Kyiv's supporters benefit from Moscow. According to reports, the abandonment of Crimea, which seized Russia in 2014, and the territory in eastern Ukraine since 2022.

Russia reacted with a limited ceasefire and more bombing of Ukraine.

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“I don't think that it should be a surprise for the President or the Foreign Minister that this is a hard slog and a difficult way, as was a hard slog for the millions of Ukrainians who were on the battlefield,” said Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.

At this speed, Kaine argued: “Going away couldn't just be bad.”

“It is better to force a bad deal than force bad business,” he said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges tougher sanctions, military support for Ukraine and a 30-day fight.

Russia sanctions?

Enter the Senate.

A cross -party group of senators has a Russian sanction legislation for standby, which would achieve a tariff of 500% to every country that buys Russian oil, gas or uranium while giving Rubio and Trump space to negotiate. But they become impatient.

“If Putin continues to attempt to end the war, I think these sanctions will overwhelm. We just don't want to reward him,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Rs.c., to USA today.

Graham, a close ally of Trump, said the legislation he had introduced with Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn, now has more than 60 cosponsors.

“When Rubio says they are going,” said Graham, “these sanctions continue.”

It is unclear whether Russia sanctions approved in the Senate would say goodbye to the Republican-controlled house.

Trump holds his fire

Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the ranking democrat in the committee for external relationships, was one of several senators who expected Rubio to complete a better business for Ukraine, and countered what “she called the bias of this administration to Vladimir Putin and Russia”.

Trump has repeatedly threatened sanctions and secondary tariffs in countries that buy Russian oil when Putin forms a ceasefire.

He announced reporters on May 5 that Russia is already being pressed with the price for the drop in oil. “We are in a good place to settle down,” he said.

“Good luck, Marco”

As for Rubio, Trump NBC said that he was a potential future leader of the Republican Party.

With Trump, however, everything could turn on a cent.

When he spoke together to the congress, Trump called out Rubio, which he commissioned to re -prepare the Panama Canal.

“Good luck, Marco,” said Trump with a laugh. “Now we know who will blame if something goes wrong.”