参议院情报特别委员会(Senate Select Committee on Intelligence)副主席马尔科·卢比奥表示，在俄罗斯无端入侵乌克兰之际，在乌克兰上空设置禁飞区，可能会导致“第三次世界大战的爆发”

“我认为人们需要理解禁飞区的含义...这并不是你通过的一些规则，每个人都必须遵守，”卢比奥，佛罗里达州，周日告诉美国广播公司“本周”主播乔治斯特凡诺普洛斯。“就是愿意击落俄联邦的飞机，基本上就是第三次世界大战的开始。”

卢比奥周六参加了与美国议员的电话会议，乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽伦斯基(Volodymyr Zelenskyy)重申了他对西方在他的国家实施禁飞区的要求。但几名国会议员在电话会议后表示，如果做不到这一点，泽伦斯基要求用飞机来代替。

斯特凡诺普洛斯问卢比奥有关与波兰供应飞机的潜在交易，美国国务卿安东尼布林肯说，美国正在“积极研究”

“战斗机的这一条款怎么样?我们将向波兰和其他东欧国家提供战斗机，他们将向乌克兰提供他们现在拥有的战斗机，你支持吗?”斯特凡诺普洛斯按下。

“我愿意。如果能做到这一点，那就太好了，”卢比奥回答道。“我确实对几件事感到担忧。考虑到俄罗斯拥有并继续部署在该地区的防空能力，他们真的能驾驶这些飞机吗?...但总的来说，这是我会支持的。”

美国国会议员中两党对禁止俄罗斯石油进口的支持继续增长，但白宫尚未予以支持。

“总统拒绝禁止俄罗斯的石油进口，当然，这将使这个国家的天然气价格更加飙升。你支持吗?”斯特凡诺普洛斯问道。

“我相信，但我不认为——你知道，我认为你可以制定一个计划，以相当快的速度逐步实施，”卢比奥说。“你可以利用储备来缓冲这种情况。但是我们这个国家有足够的能力生产足够的石油来弥补我们从俄罗斯购买的部分。”

卢比奥说，拜登政府不愿停止每天进口成桶的俄罗斯石油，这只是“承认这个家伙、这个杀手、这个屠夫弗拉基米尔·普京对我们有影响力。”

卢比奥问道:“我们为什么要让这种杠杆继续下去呢?”“为什么我们会有像他这样的人有权力提高美国人的天然气价格，这基本上是如果他切断我们的供应，储备会发生什么?”

“所以我认为我们有足够的资源，我们应该生产更多的美国石油，购买更少的俄罗斯石油，或者根本不买，事实上，根本不买，”他补充道。

当被问及南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员林赛·格拉汉姆(Lindsey Graham)在一条推文中建议有人应该暗杀俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京并“干掉这个家伙”是否“负责”时，卢比奥没有谴责这些评论，因为其他人，如共和党参议员林赛·格拉汉姆(Lindsey Graham)得克萨斯州的特德·克鲁兹做到了。

“嗯，听着，人们正在关注乌克兰发生的事情，这个人正在对这些人做什么，这个怪物正在对人类做什么，他们对此非常愤怒，”卢比奥说，并补充说，“归根结底，我确实认为弗拉基米尔·普京将面临一些国内问题。”

“俄罗斯人如何处理取决于他们，”卢比奥继续说道。“我不确定他是在呼吁美国在这方面采取行动。我认为他基本上想说的是，至少我的理解是，我希望有人能把这个家伙拉出来，以某种方式把他赶下台。我想全世界都希望如此。”

Top Republican says no-fly zone over Ukraine could lead to 'beginning of World War III'

Sen. Marco Rubio, vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine amid Russia's unprovoked invasion could lead to the "beginning of World War III."

"I think people need to understand what a no-fly zone means ... it's not some rule you pass that everybody has to oblige by," Rubio, R-Fla., told ABC "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. "It's the willingness to shoot down the aircrafts of the Russian Federation, which is basically the beginning of World War III."

In a Zoom call with U.S. lawmakers that Rubio participated in Saturday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated his request for the West to implement a no-fly zone over his country. But if that can't be done, Zelenskyy asked for planes instead, several members of Congress said after the call.

Stephanopoulos asked Rubio about a potential deal with Poland to supply aircraft, which Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is "actively looking at."

"How about this provision of fighter jets? We would provide the fighter jets to Poland, other Eastern European nations, they would send the jets they now have to Ukraine, do you support that?" Stephanopoulos pressed.

"I do. If that can be done, that would be great," Rubio answered. "I do have concerns about a couple of things. And that is sort of, you know, can they actually fly them given the amount of anti-aircraft capability that the Russians possess and continue to have deployed in the region? ... But generally speaking, it's something I'd be supportive of."

Bipartisan support to ban Russian oil imports continues to grow among U.S. lawmakers, but the White House has yet to back it.

"The president has resisted banning Russian oil imports, of course, that would send gas prices soaring even more here in this country. Do you support that?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"I do and I don't think -- you know, I think that's something that you can construct a plan to phase that in pretty rapidly," Rubio said. "And you could use reserves for the purposes of buffering that. But we have more than enough ability in this country to produce enough oil to make up for the percentage that we buy from Russia."

Rubio said the Biden administration's unwillingness to stop importing barrels of Russian oil each day is simply "an admission that this guy, that this killer, that this butcher, Vladimir Putin, has leverage over us."

"Why would we want that leverage to continue," Rubio asked. "Why would we have someone like him to have the power to raise gas prices on Americans which is basically if he cuts us off, what would happen in the reserve?"

"So I think we have enough that we should produce more American oil and buy less Russian oil or none, actually, none at all," he added.

When asked whether it was "responsible" for Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to suggest in a tweet that someone should assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin and "take this guy out," Rubio did not condemn the comments, as others, like Republican Sen.Ted Cruz of Texas, did.

"Well, look, people are watching what's happening in Ukraine and what this man is doing to these people, what this monster is doing to human beings, and they're very angry about it," Rubio said, adding that "at the end of the day I do think Vladimir Putin is going to face some problems internally in Russia."

"How the Russians seek to take care of it is up to them," Rubio continued. "I'm not sure he was calling for a U.S. action in that regard. I think what he was basically trying to say, at least my reading of it is, I wish someone would take this guy out and remove him from power one way or the other. I think the whole world wishes that."