U.S. Senator and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, Marco Rubio, is looking like the smartest guy in the room when it comes to talking about foreign policy, especially after predicting that Russia would eventually engaged in the Syrian civil war.
U.S. officials are claiming that Russian airstrikes in Syria targeted CIA-backed rebels in the city of Homs, killing dozens of rebels and civilians, an allegation that the Russian military categorically denies having occurred.Rubio predicted Russia would jump into the fray during the last CNN debate, stating that Russia would in fact begin flying “combat missions” over Syria in the following weeks, in an effort to “prop up Assad.”
#MarcoRubio predicted at the #CNNDebate what #Putin will do in #Syria, 2 weeks later, it is exactly what’s happening. pic.twitter.com/bsCpUACmm6
— Benny Polatseck (@BPolatseck) September 30, 2015
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The argument can me made that Rubio’s prediction that Russia would start bombing runs in Syria could just be the Senator from Florida divulging information he is privy to as a member of the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Whether or not this is the case, Rubio still called first, further bolstering his foreign policy bona fides.