Rubio is actually one of the few people in this administration I have some respect for. I don't like that he carries Trump's positions, but that's a requirement to have influence in the administration. He manages to put the sanest narrative possible on the chaos without getting exiled by Trump. I see him as a fairly thoughtful pragmatist navigating a tricky path through tumultuous times.

"The sanest narrative possible on the chaos"...that's exactly the problem. Chaos isn't what's wrong with the world; the desire for Order is. "Narrative" has fallen far from its use by luminaries like Joseph Campbell, Oliver Sachs, and Terry Pratchett, to being just a hip way to say "pleasing and effective lie". The fact that 'Mickey Marco' (as I used to call him before his current position showed his true nastiness) can normalize grand-scale evil and make people comfortable with it is precisely why he is a more effective, ergo greater, evil. Like I said, he himself is driven by goals of his own: Not "Cuba Libre", but 'Cuba Reconquista'. The Castro+ regime has issues of course, but the general Cuban public chose them over the old oligarchs for a reason. In any case, surely you don't think the US military should be his private sectarian army? THAT'S his goal.

Here's the amazing part: https://www.commondreams.org/news/marco-rubio-cuba If lying to your Commander In-Chief in order to make a war happen somehow isn't a crime, it should be.

I'm not defending everything he does, or advocating military intervention in Cuba. I just think he's a more pragmatic voice in an admin where that's in very short supply.