President Donald Trump’s terrific Secretary of State Marco Rubio brilliantly defended the values of Western Civilization, flanked by the backdrop of famous ruins at its birthplace in Athens, Greece. In his remarks, Rubio reminded the world that the inheritors of these ancestors should feel pride and no longer be forced to be ashamed of its legacy.
“Today, too much of the West has forgotten this quality. Over time, we in the West came to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional. We felt embarrassed that our achievements set us apart from the rest of the world. Our prosperity somehow became a source of guilt. We no longer believed we deserved and had earned our greatness,” he began.
“The word nationalism became a dirty word, and so we tore down our monuments, we condemned our own history, and in too many places we taught our children to be ashamed of the countries they would inherit. In the process, we opened our borders, and outsourced our industry and allowed our militaries to wither and to decay. And with every passing year, we seemed to outsource more of our sovereignty, transferring our decisions to global bureaucracies far beyond the reach of our control,” he went on.
“But others were all too happy to fill the vacuum that we left, the vacuum left behind by our weakness, and as the West’s confidence faltered, its adversaries and its rivals only grew more assertive, building up their own wealth and their own power in our stead. And now, today, we find ourselves at a crossroads because the next decade and the decisions we make will write the story of the next century,” he continued.
“The course we take will determine whether the West maintains its place at the head of the world or resigns itself to a future of atrophy and servitude and decline. We will either choose to act now, or lose the choice to act at all. Under President Trump, the United States has made its choice,” he added.
“We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power, to take back control of our critical supply chains, to reindustrialize our economy, to rebuild our defense, to fight for dominance of the technologies and industries of the future, we choose to reach for new frontiers in advanced manufacturing and superintelligence, in drones, weapons, and warfare, in chips, minerals, cyber, and every other domain of human possibility to unleash our energy, to rebuild our factories, to return our astronauts to the moon, and launch a new age of exploration in space,” he finished.
Watch Rubio defend Western Civilization below:
In a previous speech, Rubio was equally as good at dismantling communism as an alternative form of human government. “Communism does not sound good in theory. The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul. The world it envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity, or ambition, a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards, without a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things, and the world communism envisions is a world without God,” he said.