Trump builds hawkish team with choice of Rubio and Waltz for top jobs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Trump was expected to select the senator Marco Rubio as his secretary of state, the US's top diplomat, and has reportedly asked the congressman Mike Waltz, a retired Green Beret who is known as a China hawk, to become his national security adviser, a powerful role that would help shape Trump's policies on the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as around the world.
55% : But he has been in lockstep with Trump during the campaign and has worked with Democrats and fellow Republicans in the Senate foreign relations committee and intelligence committee, making it likely he will have an easy confirmation process in that body.
32% : "With regards to Israel's war in Gaza, the pair appeared ready to give Benjamin Netanyahu carte blanche to "let Israel finish the job", as Trump has said.
23% : Trump had regularly denigrated him in the past as a member of the Republican establishment, calling him a "puppet" and saying he was a "nervous basket case".
22% : Waltz, Trump's reported choice for national security adviser, is a former Green Beret who has argued that Trump should move quickly to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine in order to transfer US focus and military assets back to the Indo-Pacific region and counter China.
18% : On Ukraine he is likely to tailor his views to those of Trump and those around him, including Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr, who have voiced sharp criticism of continued funding for Ukraine's defence against the Russian invasion.
3% : "Rubio, whom Trump nicknamed "Little Marco" during his first presidential run, has gone from a regular target of Trump's insults to a loyal surrogate to the Republican president-elect.

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