Rubio, maybe the diplomat for the time?

 ADMITS WE NOW LIVE IN A MULTIPOLAR WORLD

WE NEED TO CONSIDER THE NATIONAL INTERESTS OF RUSSIA AND CHINA

Marco Rubio was the most troublesome cabinet pick by Donald Trump. He at one time was a advocate of the policy's of George Bush, Dick Cheney and Mitt Romney. After watching several interviews in the last few days, I have changed my mind, at least for now.

I now understand why Trump picked Marco Rubio for the position of Secretary of State. He has been very transparent and very clear in his vision of U.S. strategic interest and his, and we can assume Donald Trump's, goals. He is better at describing the new Trump policy than Trump. 

It is becoming clear that the Trump administration is focusing on the Western Hampshire as its main sphere of influence, it does appear to be Monroe 2.0. Rubio being fluent in spanish is the man for this job.

His first trip was to Panama in which he described his approach, as a diplomatic approach, to let Panama know that the U.S. is concerned with China holding influence on the Panama canal and that there is a treaty with U.S. that is in violation, if China has control of the canal. I can expect that they also discussed Panama take action to stop migrants from moving north through the narrow portion of Panama. 

He next went to El Salvador were it is reported the country has eliminated much of the crime in the country, under the new leadership. It was also revealed that El Salvador will agree to take any illegal criminal held in the U.S. and house them for a fee. A cost that is much less than in the U.S. It is also made clear that this action can start immediately. A great savings for the U.S. prison system by opening up space were many prisons are overcrowded and cut costs for federal and state and local prison systems.

Then there is an agreement with Venezuela that caused several U.S. citizens to be released and an agreement to receive all Venezuelans deported from the U.S. There are also indications of some thawing of relations with Venezuela.

Rubio has voiced his belief that it is indeed a multi-polar world and that Russia and China are great powers that we need to deal with and recognize their strategic interests, while protecting our own interests. A breath of fresh air for U.S. foreign policy. 

It again appears that there is recognition of spheres of influence that may be the basis of a new global security policy that will look for areas of cooperation and solve conflicts through diplomatic efforts, rather than sanctions and intimidation.

An indication of the administrations view of  the Ukraine conflict:

Rubio made this comment in an interview with Megyn Kelly,  "What the dishonesty is that we somehow let people to believe that Ukraine would be able not just to defeat Russia, but destroy it, push it all the way back to what the world looked like in 2012 or 2014"