U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Mumbai, India, last Tues. with regard to Donald Trump's diesel deal with Vladimir Putin that you can travel to any country in the world and that they'll tell you they’re having a diesel problem. For multiple countries, he said, it's a very dangerous situation. "So of course we’re concerned about what they [Ukraine] strike," he said. A few minutes later Rubio added that, "Economies collapse over a lack of energy." Nothing substantive was revealed about what he and U.S. Amb. Nicholas Merrick discussed at the airport when he made a refueling stop in Prague two days later, but this didn't prevent Czechs from telling the embassy on its Facebook page what they thought of Rubio and his boss. Many of the comments related to Andrej Babiš's statement that Trump was pulling a dirty trick on Europe with the diesel deal. One commenter invoked the Munich Betrayal, another spoke of a new Chamberlain. Even by Facebook standards, the comments were harsh. Most alarming to the State Dept. should be the degree to which comments by the once-Trumpist Babiš, who has his own diesel problem, are now influencing Czech opinion of the United States.
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 Source: U.S. Embassy Rubio visits Prague and gets an earfulMon, Oct 26, 2026 U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Mumbai, India, last Tues. with regard to Donald Trump's diesel deal with Vladimir Putin that you can travel to any country in the world and that they'll tell you they’re having a diesel problem. For multiple countries, he said, it's a very dangerous situation. "So of course we’re concerned about what they [Ukraine] strike," he said. A few minutes later Rubio added that, "Economies collapse over a lack of energy." Nothing substantive was revealed about what he and U.S. Amb. Nicholas Merrick discussed at the airport when he made a refueling stop in Prague two days later, but this didn't prevent Czechs from telling the embassy on its Facebook page what they thought of Rubio and his boss. Many of the comments related to Andrej Babiš's statement that Trump was pulling a dirty trick on Europe with the diesel deal. One commenter invoked the Munich Betrayal, another spoke of a new Chamberlain. Even by Facebook standards, the comments were harsh. Most alarming to the State Dept. should be the degree to which comments by the once-Trumpist Babiš, who has his own diesel problem, are now influencing Czech opinion of the United States. |
