Rubio parrots Putin's claim of a proxy war in Ukraine

 From the Hill / Yahoo!News:

"Rubio says Ukraine conflict is part of US-Russia proxy war

Lauren Irwin, March 6, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a Wednesday interview described the war in Ukraine as a proxy war between the United States and Russia, as he sought to explain on the Oval Office blowup last week between Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, President Trump and Vice President Vance.

“I think an important thing to understand about last Friday is not last Friday. It’s everything that led up to it,” Rubio said during an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity.”

“It’s been very clear from the beginning that President Trump views this as a protracted, stalemated conflict,” Rubio said. “And frankly, it’s a proxy war between nuclear powers, the United States helping Ukraine, and Russia.”...

Describing the fighting between Russia and Ukraine as a proxy war meshes with a Russian narrative of why the war started. Russia argues that Ukraine’s efforts to join NATO, coupled with the western military alliance’s encroachment on Russia, triggered the fighting.

Trump in the past few weeks has accused Ukraine of starting the war and blamed Zelensky and the Biden administration for its continuation. He also cut off aid to Ukraine on Monday...

Rubio slammed Ukraine during the interview on “Hannity,” arguing that it has no plan besides asking allied countries for more aid “for as long as it takes.”."