Rubio warns global institutions 'broken' and unable to manage India-Pakistan tensions

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declared that the global institutional framework is "broken" and fundamentally ill-equipped to manage potentially devastating conflicts such as those between India and Pakistan.

Rubio's remarks signal deep frustration in Washington with the capacity of international bodies to prevent or de-escalate modern geopolitical crises. His comments aligned closely with a broader critique advanced by President Donald Trump, who has argued that the United Nations is failing to live up to its founding purpose.

The warnings come at a moment of persistent tension between the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours, lending fresh urgency to calls for reform of the multilateral architecture that has underpinned global security for decades.