ENB Pub Note: While many judges see Secretary Rubio in memes of him holding different jobs, and they are fun, that is not what just happened. David Blackmon’s Substack article makes some outstanding points, and Andrew Korybko’s Substack offers comments from a Russian perspective. And I think that both are very informative. I will cover both on the next Energy News Beat Stand Up. 

And I highly recomend following the Promethean Action group. They have some excellent points in the speech. “Rubio just confirmed what they’ve hidden for 50 years -deindustrialization was deliberate.”

🚨 NEW: Rubio just confirmed what they've hidden for 50 years — deindustrialization was DELIBERATE.

In 1977, the CFR called it "controlled disintegration." Now Trump is ending it and the globalists at Munich are in open panic.

We have the receipts. 🧾👇 pic.twitter.com/SkDEGeQ9AM

— Promethean Action (@PrometheanActn) February 16, 2026

Rubio’s Magnificent Munich Speech: A Warning, Not an Apology – David Blackmon

Marco Rubio’s speech to the Munich Security Conference set social media on fire over the weekend. The post I put up on X on the subject attracted more views than any post I’ve done on this platform, in fact. The words in the speech really touched a nerve among not just many Americans but Europeans, too.

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The reason is obvious: Seeing a public official state the clear, unvarnished truth always strikes a nerve among people who are increasingly desperate for openness and honesty from their leaders. Of course, it helps that Rubio is such a polished and dynamic speaker, just as John F. Kennedy’s and Ronald Reagan’s speeches made so much more of an impact than those of Lyndon Johnson or George HW Bush.

But people instinctively know the truth when they hear it, and Rubio spoke some compelling truths about this rapidly evolving world so many have felt in their bones for quite some time now. Rubio’s plea to the leaders of Europe to defend their native cultures is a great example: It’s a topic I’ve written about at length for years now, since it became obvious a decade ago that the EU and UK were intentionally executing a Great Replacement strategy via mass migration.

It is already possibly too late to save Great Britain from becoming an Islamic nation, and Ireland isn’t far behind. Germany is also trending rapidly in that direction, and the lunatic King of Spain just took a great leap forward in that goal by letting in a flood of half a million and awarding them immediate voting rights in order to rig the country’s next elections. The Great Replacement advocates are now so emboldened they no longer even try to mask what they are doing.

From Venezuela, to Cuba, to the Panama Canal, to Greenland, to Canada and Mexico and now with pending operations in Iran, the administration has been flooding the zone in recent weeks to rapidly reorganize many of the world’s hot spots. Rubio’s statement that “we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline” also touched a nerve for millions. Everyone can see that there is nothing polite and orderly about U.S. geopolitical strategy under this second Trump presidency.

That statement by Rubio came less than 48 hours after he told reporters upon his departure from Joint Base Andrews to Munich that “The world is changing very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone, the world I grew up in. We live in a new era in geopolitics, and it’s going to require all of us to sort of re-examine what that looks like and what our role is going to be. We’ve had many of those conversations in private with many of our allies, and we need to continue having those conversations.”

Diversity can be a strength, but only when the imported diverse populations are required to assimilate into the host society, something Islamists never do. Thus, the “diversity” imported by Obama and Biden only served to divide the country, which we now know beyond any doubt was in fact the Democrat party’s goal.

Millions of Americans see this reality clearly and want the madness of it to stop. That was the main reason why Donald Trump was elected to a second term in office in November 2024. To his everlasting credit, Trump halted the flow almost immediately but resolving the crises created by the flow in places like California, Minnesota, and Maine is a long-term project. Still, America’s problem is solvable with the right leadership in place for another couple of terms. Therein lies the rub, of course.

Rubio’s admonition to the European audience that America does not seek to end its alliances with their countries but strengthen them came with a clear caveat that they can only be strengthened when the leaders of those countries begin to proudly and boldly defend their borders and their native cultures.

Many have read Rubio’s remarks as designed to signal that the U.S. will work to fortify NATO, the G7 and other existing globalist structures for those alliances regardless of how the countries of Europe respond to his speech. That interpretation is wrong, because that caveat is not a footnote to a larger theme, but the driver of the theme itself. This was a warning shot aimed right at the WEF-trained zealots who currently head the governments of European powers like the UK, Spain, France, and Germany: You must change direction and fast, or America is prepared to seek new alliances.

The theme of Rubio’s speech was not “America is sorry we behaved badly and want your approval as we come meekly back into the fold,” as many in the media are portraying it. Quite the contrary: The theme was “America is moving boldly forward and invites you to come with us on the journey, but that can only happen when you are willing to moved boldly with us.”

That is clearly the message in this passage from the speech:

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 that we want is one that is not paralyzed into an action by fear. Fear of climate change, fear of war, fear 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. [Emphasis added]

Rubio’s speech wasn’t an apology: It was a call for bold, fast action in a world whose geopolitics and alliances are rapidly evolving. The nations of Europe can either join the United States in defending the legacies of their native cultures, or face a future as de facto vassal states to China.

That was the message, and it was met by a standing ovation from the audience. But we are left to wonder if those in the audience really understood exactly what they were applauding.

Rubio’s Munich Speech Detailed Trump 2.0’s Envisaged New World Order – Andrew Korybko

What Trump 2.0 wants to do is lead Western Civilization’s comprehensive reforms with a view towards building a nascent civilization-state that would then unrestrainedly wield its restored collective strength to coerce rising rivals into subordinating themselves to it for restoring unipolarity.

Marco Rubio, who’s one of the most powerful figures in the US due to his roles as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, gave an historic speech at last weekend’s Munich Security Conference detailing Trump 2.0’s envisaged new world order. His words were shaped by the National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy, and the “Trump Doctrine”, which readers can learn more about from the preceding hyperlinked analyses. The present one will review, contextualize, and analyze his speech.

He lambasted the notion that “the end of history” arrived after the Old Cold War wherein liberal democracies would supposedly proliferate across the world and the “rules-based global order” would replace national interests. Rubio particularly criticized the outsourcing of industry to adversaries and rivals, the outsourcing of sovereignty to international institutions, self-impoverishment “to appease a climate cult”, and mass migration, all of which he admitted were mistakes and says the US wants to fix.

Rubio declared that Trump 2.0 will renew and restore Western Civilization on its own if need be but prefers to do so together with Europe from which the US emerged. He then loftily praised their shared civilization in multiple ways before claiming that its reinvigoration will inspire their armed forces. This preceded him touching upon Trump 2.0’s plans to reindustrialize, end mass migration, and reform global governance to that end, which he said will deliver tangible dividends to the Western masses.

Far from the isolationist policies that some fearmonger that the US will pursue, it actually wants to optimize its global network of alliances, but this can only happen through fairer burden-sharing. Restoring pride in Western Civilization is another of Trump 2.0’s top foreign policy goals. Reflecting on this envisaged world order, it clearly takes its cues from Samuel Huntington’s and Alexander Dugin’s works on civilizationalism, which focus on this aspect of shared identity as a rising factor in global affairs.

As could be expected, the concept of American Exceptionalism pervades Rubio’s speech, which is evident with respect to him declaring that the US will go it alone in restoring Western Civilization if need be and also describing the West’s perceived “terminal decline” after World War II as a “choice”. The latter hints that the US doesn’t believe that multipolarity, understood in this context as the rise of other civilization-states for balancing the nascent Western one that Trump 2.0 wants to create, is inevitable.

Extrapolating from that, this in turn suggests that the rise of other poles (however they’re described [countries, civilization-states, blocs, etc.]) is the result of the West’s counterproductive policies, not due to any policies of their own. That’s questionable, since while it’s true that Nixon’s Sino-US Détente from the Old Cold War provided the capital responsible for China’s rise for instance, the Communist Party of China directed this process to protect national sovereignty and turn China into an economic superpower.

What Trump 2.0 wants to do is lead Western Civilization’s comprehensive reforms with a view towards building a nascent civilization-state that would then unrestrainedly wield its restored collective strength to coerce rising rivals into subordinating themselves to it for restoring unipolarity. The US has achieved some foreign policy successes over the past year, but this doesn’t mean that it’ll succeed in reforming Western Civilization, creating a civilization-state out of it, and then controlling the world.

I like both articles from different viewpoints, and I agree with David Blackmon that Europe is lost if it does not keep its heritage and stop the influx of other religious folks that do not want to assimilate, but rather conquer. And Andrew has an outstanding point: the United States can lead, but it is up to European leaders to either save their cultures or fail. Just because President Trump thinks Europe should do something does not mean that they will, or that they are smart enough to save themselves.