Rubio on People Saying that Promise of Not Letting Ukraine Become a NATO Member Would’ve Averted War: ‘Untrue’

RUSH EXCERPT:

RUBIO: “First it’s become popular for people to go around saying, well, if we agreed to it not let Ukraine join NATO this could have been avoided. That’s false. Putin laid out his condition ss. He wanted every country who joined since 1997 out of NATO. That’s romania and lithuania and the baltics states. He wants them to it look like belarus with a government that responds to him. We need to make clear. That’s not going to happen. At the beginning of the program you touched on what gives Vladimir Putin leverage. Nuclear weapons in the battleground is one. The other is oil and natural gas. He weaponized energy and to hear Joe Biden say it’s not our goal to disrupt oil in the market place. It’s not to disrupt it, it’s to replace it. We could chip away at putin’s advantage and protect us.”