The HISTORIC and EMOTIONAL speech by MARCO RUBIO in MUNICH that moved everyone
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Um, we will start this morning with the
followed by the Chinese perspective and then we'll open up to the European Union and beyond. It is my particular honor and pleasure now to welcome the speaker who will represent the United States of America. Welcome Secretary of State Marco Rubio. You have the floor. Thank you very much. We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world. You know, when this conference it was in a nation. Actually, it was on a continent that was divided against The line between communism and freedom ran through the heart of Germany. The first barbed fences of the Berlin Wall had gone up just two years prior. And just months before that first conference, before our predecessors first met here here in Munich, the Cuban missile crisis had brought the world to the brink of nuclear Even as uh World War II still burned fresh in the memory of Americans and we found ourselves staring down the barrel of a new global catastrophe. One with the potential for a new kind of destruction, more apocalyptic and final than anything before in the history of The time of that first gathering, Soviet communism was on the march. Thousands of years of Western civilization hung in the balance. At that time, victory was far from certain. But we were driven by a common purpose. We were unified not just by what we were fighting against. We were unified, but we were what we were fighting for. And together, Europe and America And a continent was rebuilt. Our people prospered in time. The east and west blocks were reunited. A civilization was once again made whole. That infamous wall that had cleaved this nation into two came down and with it an evil empire and the east and west became one again. But the euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion that we had entered quote the end of history. that every nation would now be a liberal democracy. That the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood. That the rules-based global order, an overused term, would now replace the national interest, and that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world. This was a foolish idea that ignored both human nature and it ignored the lessons of over 5,000 years of recorded And it has cost us dearly. In this delusion, we embraced a dogmatic vision of free and unfettered trade. Even as some nations protected their economies and subsidized their cus companies to systematically undercut ours, shuttering our plants, was resulting in large parts of our societies being de-industrialized, shipping millions of working and middle class jobs overseas and handing control of our critical supply chains to both We increasingly outsourced our sovereignty to international institutions. While many nations invested in massive welfare states at the cost of maintaining the ability to defend themselves, this even as other countries have invested in the most rapid military buildup in all of human history and have not hesitated to use hard power to pursue their own To appease a climate cult, we have imposed energy policies on ourselves that are impoverishing our people. Even as our competitors exploit oil and coal and natural gas and anything else, not just to power their economies, but to use as leverage against our own. And in a pursuit of a world without borders, we opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the We made these mistakes together. And now together, we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move Under President Trump, the United States of 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. And while we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone, it is our preference and it is our hope to do this together with you, our friends here in Europe. For the United States and Europe, America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before. The men who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new. We are part of one civilization, Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share. Forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have And so this is why we Americans may sometimes come off as uh a little direct and urgent in our council. This is why President Trump demands seriousness and reciprocity from our friends here in Europe. The reason why, my friends, is because we care deeply. We care deeply about your future and ours. And if at times we disagree, our disagreements come from our profound sense of concern about a Europe with which we are connected not just economically, not just militarily, we are connected spiritually and we are We want Europe to be strong. We believe because the two great wars of the last century serve for us as history's constant reminder that ultimately our destiny is and will always be intertwined with yours. Because we know Because we know that the fate of Europe will never be irrelevant to our own. National security, which this conference is largely about, is not merely a series of technical questions. How much we spend on defense or where, how we deploy it. These are important questions. They are, but they are not the fundamental one. The fundamental question we must is what exactly are we defending? Because armies do not fight for Armies fight for a people. Armies fight for a nation. Armies fight for a way of life. And that is what we are 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 It was here in Europe where the ideas that planted the seeds of liberty that changed the world were born. It was here in Europe where the world which gave the world the rule of law, the universities and the scientific revolution. It was this continent that produced the genius of Mosart and Beth Hovind, of Dante and Shakespeare, of Michelangelo and Da Vinci, of the Beatles and the And this is the place where the vated ceilings of the cysteine chapel and the towering spires of the great cathedral in Cologne. They testify not just to the greatness of our past or to a faith in God that inspired these marvels. They foreshadow the wonders that await us in But only if we are unapologetic in our heritage and proud of this common inheritance can we together begin the work of envisioning and shaping our economic and our political future. De-industrialization was not inevitable. It was a conscious policy choice, a decadesl long economic undertaking that stripped our nations of their wealth, of their productive capacity, and of their And the loss of our supply chain sovereignty was not a function of a prosperous and healthy system of global trade. It was foolish. It was a foolish but voluntary transformation of our economy that left us dependent on others for our needs and dangerously vulnerable is not was not is some fringe concern of little consequence. It was and continues to be a crisis which is transforming and societies all across the West. Together, we can re-industrialize our economies and rebuild our capacity to defend our people. But the work of this new alliance should not be focused just on military cooperation and reclaiming the industries of the past. It should also be focused on together advancing our
mutual interest in new frontiers,
