“Overall narrative cohesion is high. All four pillars agree on a picture of a post-2024 Trumpworld in which Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State, is a central but not all-powerful actor. No pillar materially contradicts another: MAP situates Rubio in legal/political turbulence, MOOD portrays him as an ambitious yet constrained courtier, MACHINE frames the 2028 race with Rubio at 11 % odds, and MECHANICS shows allies calibrating policy to his hawkish instincts. Because the story lines reinforce—not undercut—one another, systemic uncertainty is limited to normal political volatility. Therefore the combined risk posture is “Guarded”: credible but not crisis-level concerns that could escalate if Rubio’s legal exposure or foreign-policy gambits backfire.”