https://www.state.gov/releases/office-o ... conference
MARCO RUBIO, SECRETARY OF STATE
HOTEL BAYERISCHER HOF
MUNICH, GERMANY
FEBRUARY 14, 2026
"This is the path that President Trump and the United States has embarked upon. It is the path we ask you here in Europe to join us on. It is a path we have walked together before and hope to walk together again. For five centuries, before the end of the Second World War, the West had been expanding – its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe. [1]
But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, it was contracting. Europe was in ruins. Half of it lived behind an Iron Curtain and the rest looked like it would soon follow. The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years to come. [2]
Against that backdrop, then, as now, many came to believe that the West’s age of dominance had come to an end and that our future was destined to be a faint and feeble echo of our past. But together, our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, and it was a choice they refused to make. This is what we did together once before, and this is what President Trump and the United States want to do again now, together with you. [3]
And this is why we do not want our allies to be weak, because that makes us weaker. We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength. This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame. We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who, together with us, are willing and able to defend it. [4]
And this is why we do not want allies to rationalize the broken status quo rather than reckon with what is necessary to fix it, for we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline. We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history. What we want is a reinvigorated alliance that recognizes that what has ailed our societies is not just a set of bad policies but a malaise of hopelessness and complacency. An alliance – the alliance that we want is one that is not paralyzed into inaction by fear – fear of climate change, fear of war, fear of technology. Instead, we want an alliance that boldly races into the future. And the only fear we have is the fear of the shame of not leaving our nations prouder, stronger, and wealthier for our children. [5]
An alliance ready to defend our people, to safeguard our interests, and to preserve the freedom of action that allows us to shape our own destiny – not one that exists to operate a global welfare state and atone for the purported sins of past generations. An alliance that does not allow its power to be outsourced, constrained, or subordinated to systems beyond its control; one that does not depend on others for the critical necessities of its national life; and one that does not maintain the polite pretense that our way of life is just one among many and that asks for permission before it acts. And above all, an alliance based on the recognition that we, the West, have inherited together – what we have inherited together is something that is unique and distinctive and irreplaceable, because this, after all, is the very foundation of the transatlantic bond. [6]
Acting together in this way, we will not just help recover a sane foreign policy. It will restore to us a clearer sense of ourselves. It will restore a place in the world, and in so doing, it will rebuke and deter the forces of civilizational erasure that today menace both America and Europe alike. [7]
So in a time of headlines heralding the end of the transatlantic 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. (Applause.) [8]
Our story began with an Italian explorer whose adventure into the great unknown to discover a new world brought Christianity to the Americas – and became the legend that defined the imagination of a our pioneer nation. [9]
Our first colonies were built by English settlers, to whom we owe not just the language we speak but the whole of our political and legal system. Our frontiers were shaped by Scots-Irish – that proud, hearty clan from the hills of Ulster that gave us Davy Crockett and Mark Twain and Teddy Roosevelt and Neil Armstrong. [10]
Our great midwestern heartland was built by German farmers and craftsmen who transformed empty plains into a global agricultural powerhouse – and by the way, dramatically upgraded the quality of American beer. (Laughter.)
Our expansion into the interior followed the footsteps of French fur traders and explorers whose names, by the way, still adorn the street signs and towns’ names all across the Mississippi Valley. Our horses, our ranches, our rodeos – the entire romance of the cowboy archetype that became synonymous with the American West – these were born in Spain. And our largest and most iconic city was named New Amsterdam before it was named New York.
And do you know that in the year that my country was founded, Lorenzo and Catalina Geroldi lived in Casale Monferrato in the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. And Jose and Manuela Reina lived in Sevilla, Spain. I don’t know what, if anything, they knew about the 13 colonies which had gained their independence from the British empire, but here’s what I am certain of: They could have never imagined that 250 years later, one of their direct descendants would be back here today on this continent as the chief diplomat of that infant nation. And yet here I am, reminded by my own story that both our histories and our fates will always be linked. [11]
Together we rebuilt a shattered continent in the wake of two devastating world wars. When we found ourselves divided once again by the Iron Curtain, the free West linked arms with the courageous dissidents struggling against tyranny in the East to defeat Soviet communism. We have fought against each other, then reconciled, then fought, then reconciled again. And we have bled and died side by side on battlefields from Kapyong to Kandahar. [12]
And I am here today to leave it clear that America is charting the path for a new century of prosperity, and that once again we want to do it together with you, our cherished allies and our oldest friends. (Applause.) [13]
We want to do it together with you, with a Europe that is proud of its heritage and of its history; with a Europe that has the spirit of creation of liberty that sent ships out into uncharted seas and birthed our civilization; with a Europe that has the means to defend itself and the will to survive. 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. Thank you. (Applause.)[14]"
[1]Why should we care about European expansion?
[2] The USA is an anti-colonial uprising. The CIA has backed riots and coups such as with the 1953 Iranian "Revolution" or the Vietnam War. Hypocrisy at its finest.
[3] We broke free from them to grow our own nation, not to push the globalization endgame. We need to fight for freedom, not expansion. Freedom in our own land, not another across the world. Hegemony is the path to tyranny, not freedom.
[4] Don't be guilty about the Crusades because we are still fighting them! Is that the message here? Don't be guilty about the Inquisitions either. Plague? Mass enslavement? Colonization and taxation? Disarmament? Tariffs? NO PROBLEM DRAFT ME UP.
[5] It is quite clear that you have no shame for the pains of a profitable war. At the expense of no life including Iranian children or your own soldiers. Hell, you might go as far as allowing California to be bombed for political ambition? Sources? Operation Northwoods, USS Liberty, USS Maine, etc.
[6] The USA and Europe have nothing to inherit together unless you're part of a secret society or "noble" banking family interested in pushing the endgame.
[7] This guy thinks bombing 7 countries in one year after the President campaigned on ending wars is "sane policy." That's why Gaza and Lebanon are still suffering while Iran and Israel trade blows. Our people get caught in the middle as tools. So sane.
[8] How interesting. I thought we disowned them in the revolution. Shall we get into what ancient civilizations Europe birthed from? Not that it matters.
[9] It started with a shot in Lexington, but since you keep mentioning Columbus let us remember his role in transatlantic slave trade.
[10] You say that like they had much of a choice. Yes, there was some English colonies. They were oppressed. This is why they revolted. You're a head of state. Get it together, Rubio.
[11] Nobody could have known. Certainly not "noble" families such as Guelph (House of Hanover > King George III), Massimo, Colonna, Orsini, Borghese, Ruspoli, Pallavicini, Odescalchi, Theodoli, Sacchetti, and Boncompagni-Ludovisi.
[12] During the time period he is referencing, the OSS implemented sleeper cells throughout Europe. Officially tasked with resisting the spread of communism, they actually committed false flag attacks. This was known as Operation Gladio. A key figure involved was James Jesus Angelton who happens to be the founder of Mossad. These false flag tactics were carried on to be used in the US coup that led to the Iranian Revolution and the Shah. It is also important to note that William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan, the director of the OSS was a Knight of Malta.
[13] Once again? You're taking about the world wars. This sound like you're fishing to start another.
[14] Speak for yourself, Rubio. Not everyone shares your enthusiasm about reviving colonialism. If there's one silver lining here, it is that Rubio has ended his career with this speech. This seems like a pattern lately. These government clowns are getting too bold.
What we are seeing is a continuation of the crusades.
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