Marco Rubio reminds Europe — and the world — – Latest News
Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a really terrific Valentine’s Day tackle at the Munich Security Conference, laying out the deep ties entwining the United States with Europe — whereas firmly laying down America’s worries about how the Old World is abandoning our shared heritage.
Above all, he aimed to rally our allies to return to their senses.
He received large applause with this reassurance: “In a time of headlines heralding the end of the trans-Atlantic era, let it be known and clear to all that this is neither our goal nor our wish — because for us Americans, our home may be in the Western Hemisphere, but we will always be a child of Europe.”
Crucially, he traced the divisions within the alliance to the “dangerous delusion” that with the fall of Soviet Communism “every nation would now be a liberal democracy; that the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood,” that some “global order” might “replace the national interest” in “a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world.”
Those fantasies have now produced a West challenged to even defend itself, not to mention protect “the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people.”
The United States stays loyal to our common heritage; underneath President Donald Trump, “America will once again take on the task of renewal and restoration, driven by a vision of a future as proud, as sovereign, and as vital as our civilization’s past.”
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America will, “if necessary, to do this alone,” however hopes “to do this together with you, our friends here in Europe.”
He challenged the allies to wake up and take part defending “a great civilization that has every reason to be proud of its history, confident of its future, and aims to always be the master of its own economic and political destiny.”
Emphasizing our connections “not just economically, not just militarily,” however “spiritually” and “culturally,” he insisted: “We want Europe to be strong.”
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Then he listed off all the methods the West has as a substitute chosen decline, from deindustrialization — a “voluntary transformation of our economy that left us dependent on others for our needs and dangerously vulnerable to crisis” — to permitting mass migrations which can be “transforming and destabilizing societies all across the West.”
Our allies can nonetheless select in any other case: “What has ailed our societies is not just a set of bad policies but a malaise of hopelessness and complacency.”
Let us select to be an alliance “that boldly races into the future,” understanding “the only fear we have is the fear of the shame of not leaving our nations prouder, stronger, and wealthier for our children.”
We can construct a grand future, “advancing our mutual interests and new frontiers, unshackling our ingenuity, our creativity, and the dynamic spirit to build a new Western century.”
In a speech that celebrated the glories of Western civilization and the super victories of the trans-Atlantic alliance, he completed by wanting ahead: “We should be proud of what we achieved together in the last century, but now we must confront and embrace the opportunities of a new one — because yesterday is over, the future is inevitable, and our destiny together awaits.”
He didn’t drop the mic, however he ought to’ve: Rubio took each gripe our allies have with Team Trump — and certainly with the US position in world affairs for the final half-century — and flipped the script to show how what Western elites think about to be progress is definitely a suicidal rejection of our civilization’s great strengths.
No single speech can heal divisions that grew up over a long time, however Rubio delivered a devastating rebuttal to the complacent European conceit that America is the one rejecting the fundamentals of our alliance.
His remarks visibly scored with an viewers that had earlier applauded Gov. Gavin Newsom and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for utilizing the Munich stage to criticize the United States.
Rubio’s imaginative and prescient, that’s, is not only principled, however persuasive; we pray it proves persuasive enough.
