Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the United States’s top diplomat, but his recent engagement with the country’s two most prominent foreign policy priorities has appeared to be from the sidelines.
Presidential envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were in the spotlight during the latest round of peace negotiations between the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia in Abu Dhabi this week. It is the special envoys who will now head to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, then to Dublin to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This unorthodox arrangement has become the norm in U.S. dealings with Iran as well, leading to speculation about where Rubio fits into the equation.
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