No embeds, no briefings, no truth: Rubio's 'head for an eye'
The Secretary of State just told the country the policy is "a head for an eye" — and refused to rule out striking civilian infrastructure. Meanwhile the Pentagon has killed press briefings, killed embeds, and killed transparency in the middle of a shooting war. This is what happens when the MAGA machine fuses the military to a political brand and shuts the American public out of its own war.
The Secretary of State went on television and refused to rule out striking civilian targets. "A head for an eye," Marco Rubio…
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