Like most prominent U.S conservatives, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a big fan of double-think. Yet, his latest foray into the well-worn act of Republicans engaging in hypocrisy is a little on the nose, even for the Catch-22-like absurdity America is currently engaged in.
Appearing on Good Morning America, the acting national security advisor and famously interventionalist-minded politician was defending Trump’s flailing war against Iran and their schoolgirls when he brought up how much the under siege regime had invested in weaponary. The Iranians are currently undergoing bombardment by the Americans and the Israelis, and in retaliation have been attacking various targets in the Middle East, while also excercising control over the key oil shipping lane the Strait of Hormuz, making use of a stockpile of weapons they have had years to build.
