Friday, April 25, 2025 - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said countries in Africa are going in two directions, with some developing economically while others are falling into chaos.
The American diplomat, in an interview with Bari Weiss
Podcast, responded to a question on the United States’ interest in foreign
nations — stability or democracy.
Rubio explained that the United States now operates
according to the dynamics in each region as current situations differ from what
existed in previous decades.
The Secretary of State said 20 years ago, the U.S. was “a
unipolar power” and was usually called in to do things because nobody else
could or would.
“We don’t live in that world anymore,” he stated. “We now
live in a world with a near peer adversary in China.”
“We live in a world where, while Russia’s economy is not
large, they have the ability to project power and destabilize.”
Rubio said the world now witnesses a nuclear-armed North
Korea, a nuclear-ambitious Iran, and a Middle East with both opportunities and
real challenges.
The Secretary revealed that the U.S. national interest in
the Middle East is stability, and preventing groups that would attack Americans
from taking root.
In Central America, U.S. national interest is migration,
drugs, with the hope that countries are prosperous so people don’t migrate and
join drug cartels.
“We have to have foreign policies in different parts of the
world, and we have to have the regions and the embassies run it,” Rubio noted.
The senior official added that Washington no longer applies
the same standard across the board, adding: “That’s not realistic foreign
policy in today’s world.”
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