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00:00We will start this morning with the United States, followed by the Chinese perspective, and then we'll open up to
00:11the European Union and beyond.
00:13It is my particular honor and pleasure now to welcome the speaker who will represent the United States of America.
00:26Welcome Secretary of State Marco Rubio. You have the floor.
00:37Thank you. Thank you.
00:43Thank you very much. We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed
00:51the world.
00:52You know, when this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation, actually it was on a continent, that
01:00was divided against itself.
01:02The line between communism and freedom ran through the heart of Germany.
01:08The first barbed fences of the Berlin Wall had gone up just two years prior.
01:13And just months before that first conference, before our predecessors first met here, here in Munich, the Cuban Missile Crisis
01:22had brought the world to the brink of nuclear destruction.
01:28Even as World War II still burned fresh in the memory of Americans and Europeans alike, we found ourselves staring
01:37down the barrel of a new global catastrophe.
01:40One with the potential for a new kind of destruction, more apocalyptic and final than anything before in the history
01:49of mankind.
01:51The time of that first gathering, Soviet communism was on the march.
01:56Thousands of years of Western civilization hung in the balance.
01:59At that time, victory was far from certain.
02:05But we were driven by a common purpose.
02:09We were unified, not just by what we were fighting against.
02:13We were unified, but what we were fighting for.
02:17And together, Europe and America prevailed.
02:22And a continent was rebuilt.
02:25Our people prospered in time, the East and West Blocks were reunited.
02:29A civilization was once again made whole.
02:33That infamous wall that had cleaved this nation into two came down, and with it, an evil empire.
02:40And the East and West became one again.
02:43But the euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion.
02:49That we had entered, quote, the end of history.
02:52That every nation would now be a liberal democracy.
02:55That the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood.
03:02That the rules-based global order, an overused term, would now replace the national interest.
03:07And that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world.
03:14This was a foolish idea that ignored both human nature and it ignored the lessons of over 5,000 years
03:22of recorded human history.
03:24And it has cost us dearly.
03:26In this delusion, we embraced a dogmatic vision of free and unfettered trade, even as some nations protected their economies
03:35and subsidized their companies to systematically undercut ours.
03:39Shuttering our plants, resulting in large parts of our societies being deindustrialized.
03:47Shipping millions of working and middle class jobs overseas.
03:51And handing control of our critical supply chains to both adversaries and rivals.
03:57We increasingly outsourced our sovereignty to international institutions while many nations invested in massive welfare states at the cost of
04:05maintaining the ability to defend themselves.
04:07This, even as other countries have invested in the most rapid military build-up in all of human history and
04:15have not hesitated to use hard power to pursue their own interests.
04:20To appease a climate cult, we have imposed energy policies on ourselves that are impoverishing our people.
04:26Even as our competitors exploit oil and coal and natural gas and anything else, not just to power their economies,
04:34but to use as leverage against our own.
04:37And in a pursuit of a world without borders, we opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration
04:44that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people.
04:53We made these mistakes together.
04:56And now, together, we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward, to rebuild.
05:04Under President Trump, the United States of America will once again take on the task of renewal and restoration, driven
05:12by a vision of a future as proud, as sovereign, and as vital as our civilization's past.
05:18And while we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone, it is our preference and it is our hope
05:27to do this together with you, our friends here in Europe.
05:33For the United States and Europe, we belong together.
05:38America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before.
05:45The men who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the
05:51traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and
06:00the new.
06:00We are part of one civilization, Western civilization.
06:05We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history,
06:13Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we
06:24have fallen heir.
06:26And so this is why we Americans may sometimes come off as a little direct and urgent in our council.
06:36This is why President Trump demands seriousness and reciprocity from our friends here in Europe.
06:42The reason why, my friends, is because we care deeply.
06:46We care deeply about your future and ours.
06:51And if at times we disagree, our disagreements come from our profound sense of concern about a Europe with which
06:59we are connected, not just economically, not just militarily.
07:04We are connected spiritually and we are connected culturally.
07:07We want Europe to be strong.
07:10We believe that Europe must survive.
07:14Because the two great wars of the last century serve for us as history's constant reminder that ultimately our destiny
07:23is and will always be intertwined with yours.
07:41Because we know that the fate of Europe will never be irrelevant to our own.
07:48National security, which this conference is largely about, is not merely a series of technical questions.
07:56How much we spend on defense or where, how we deploy it.
08:00These are important questions.
08:01They are.
08:02But they are not the fundamental one.
08:04The fundamental question we must answer at the outset is what exactly are we defending?
08:11Because armies do not fight for abstractions.
08:15Armies fight for a people.
08:17Armies fight for a nation.
08:19Armies fight for a way of life.
08:21And that is what we are defending.
08:23A great civilization that has every reason to be proud of its history, confident of its future, and aims to
08:31always be the master of its own economic and political destiny.
08:35It was here, in Europe, where the ideas that planted the seeds of liberty that changed the world were born.
08:42It was here, in Europe, where the world, which gave the world the rule of law, the universities, and the
08:50scientific revolution.
08:51It was this continent that produced the genius of Mozart and Beethoven, of Dante and Shakespeare, of Michelangelo and Da
09:01Vinci, of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
09:06And this is the place where the vaulted ceilings of the Sistine Chapel and the towering spires of the great
09:14cathedral in Cologne testify not just to the greatness of our past,
09:18or to a faith in God that inspired these marvels.
09:22They foreshadow the wonders that await us in our future.
09:28But only if we are unapologetic in our heritage and proud of this common inheritance can we together begin the
09:35work of envisioning and shaping our economic and our political future.
09:41Deindustrialization was not inevitable. It was a conscious policy choice, a decades-long economic undertaking that stripped our nations of
09:49their wealth, of their productive capacity, and of their independence.
09:53And the loss of our supply chain sovereignty was not a function of a prosperous and healthy system of global
09:59trade.
09:59It was foolish. It was a foolish but voluntary transformation of our economy that left us dependent on others for
10:06our needs and dangerously vulnerable to crisis.
10:11Mass migration is not, was not, is not some fringe concern of little consequence.
10:17It was and continues to be a crisis which is transforming and destabilizing societies all across the West.
10:25Together we can re-industrialize our economies and rebuild our capacity to defend our people.
10:31But the work of this new alliance should not be focused just on military cooperation and reclaiming the industries of
10:37the past.
10:38It should also be focused on together advancing our mutual interests and new frontiers, unshackling our ingenuity, our creativity, and
10:48the dynamic spirit to build a new Western century.
10:52Commercial space travel and cutting-edge artificial intelligence, industrial automation and flex manufacturing,
10:59creating a Western supply chain for critical minerals not vulnerable to extortion from other powers,
11:05and a unified effort to compete for market share in the economies of the global South.
11:11Together we cannot only take back control of our own industries and supply chains.
11:15We can prosper in the areas that will define the 21st century.
11:21But we must also gain control of our national borders.
11:25Controlling who and how many people enter our countries, this is not an expression of xenophobia.
11:31It is not hate. It is a fundamental act of national sovereignty.
11:36And the failure to do so is not just an abdication of one of our most basic duties owed to
11:42our people.
11:43It is an urgent threat to the fabric of our societies and the survival of our civilization itself.
11:51And finally, we can no longer place the so-called global order above the vital interests of our people and
11:58our nations.
11:59We do not need to abandon the system of international cooperation we authored.
12:04And we don't need to dismantle the global institutions of the old order that together we built.
12:09But these must be reformed. These must be rebuilt.
12:14For example, the United Nations still has tremendous potential to be a tool for good in the world.
12:20But we cannot ignore that today on the most pressing matters before us, it has no answers and has played
12:27virtually no role.
12:29It could not solve the war in Gaza.
12:32Instead, it was American leadership that freed captives from barbarians and brought about a fragile truce.
12:37It has not solved the war in Ukraine.
12:41It took American leadership in partnership with many of the countries here today just to bring the two sides to
12:46the table in search of a still elusive peace.
12:50It was powerless to constrain the nuclear program of radical Shia clerics in Tehran.
12:56That required 14 bombs dropped with precision from American B-2 bombers.
13:01And it was unable to address the threat to our security from a narco-terrorist dictator in Venezuela.
13:07Instead, it took American special forces to bring this fugitive to justice.
13:11In a perfect world, all of these problems and more would be solved by diplomats and strongly worded resolutions.
13:20But we do not live in a perfect world.
13:23And we cannot continue to allow those who blatantly and openly threaten our citizens and endanger our global stability
13:29to shield themselves behind abstractions of international law which they themselves routinely violate.
13:37This is the path that President Trump and the United States has embarked upon.
13:42It is the path we ask you here in Europe to join us on.
13:45It is a path we have walked together before and hope to walk together again.
13:52For five centuries before the end of the Second World War, the West had been expanding.
13:58Its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans,
14:04settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.
14:10But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, it was contracting.
14:18Europe was in ruins.
14:20Half of it lived behind an iron curtain and the rest looked like it would soon follow.
14:26The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions
14:32and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths
14:41of the map in the years to come.
14:44Against that backdrop, then, as now, many came to believe that the West's age of dominance had come to an
14:50end
14:51and that our future was destined to be a faint and feeble echo of our past.
14:58But together, our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, and it was a choice they refused to make.
15:09This is what we did together once before, and this is what President Trump and the United States want to
15:15do again now, together with you.
15:19And this is why we do not want our allies to be weak, because that makes us weaker.
15:25We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength.
15:32This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame.
15:36We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to
15:42the same great and noble civilization,
15:44and who together with us are willing and able to defend it.
15:50And this is why we do not want allies to rationalize the broken status quo rather than reckon with what
15:56is necessary to fix it.
15:58For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline.
16:08We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history.
16:16What we want is a reinvigorated alliance that recognizes that what has ailed our societies is not just a set
16:23of bad policies,
16:24but a malaise of hopelessness and complacency.
16:27An alliance, the alliance that we want is one that is not paralyzed into an action by fear.
16:33Fear of climate change, fear of war, fear of technology.
16:36Instead, we want an alliance that boldly races into the future.
16:40And the only fear we have is the fear of the shame of not leaving our nations prouder, stronger, and
16:47wealthier for our children.
16:49An alliance ready to defend our people, to safeguard our interests, and to preserve the freedom of action that allows
16:56us to shape our own destiny.
16:58Not one that exists to operate a global welfare state and atone for the purported sins of past generations.
17:05An alliance that does not allow its power to be outsourced, constrained, or subordinated to systems beyond its control.
17:12One that does not depend on others for the critical necessities of its national life.
17:17And one that does not maintain the polite pretense that our way of life is just one among many and
17:25that asks for permission before it acts.
17:28And above all, an alliance based on the recognition that we, the West, have inherited together.
17:36What we have inherited together is something that is unique and distinctive and irreplaceable.
17:42Because this, after all, is the very foundation of the transatlantic bond.
17:49Acting together in this way, we will not just help recover a sane foreign policy.
17:53It will restore to us a clear sense of ourselves.
17:58It will restore a place in the world.
18:01And in so doing, it will rebuke and deter the forces of civilizational erasure that today menace both America and
18:09Europe alike.
18:11So in a time of headlines heralding the end of the transatlantic era, let it be known and clear to
18:18all that this is neither our goal nor our wish.
18:24Because for us Americans, our home may be in the Western Hemisphere, but we will always be a child of
18:31Europe.
18:43Our story began with an Italian explorer whose adventure into the great unknown to discover a new world brought Christianity
18:51to the Americas and became the legend that defined the imagination of our pioneer nation.
18:56Our first colonies were built by English settlers, whom we own not just the language we speak, but the whole
19:03of our political and legal system.
19:05Our frontiers were shaped by Scots-Irish, that proud hardy clan from the hills of Ulster that gave us Davy
19:13Crockett and Mark Twain and Teddy Roosevelt and Neil Armstrong.
19:17Our great Midwestern heartland was built by German farmers and craftsmen who transformed empty plains into a global agricultural powerhouse.
19:28And by the way, dramatically upgraded the quality of American beer.
19:35Our expansion into the interior followed the footsteps of French fur traders and explorers whose names, by the way, still
19:42adorned the street signs and towns names all across the Mississippi Valley.
19:47Our horses, our ranches, our rodeos, the entire romance of the cowboy archetype that became synonymous with the American West.
19:57These were born in Spain.
19:59And our largest and most iconic city was named New Amsterdam before it was named New York.
20:07And you know that in the year that my country was founded, Lorenzo and Catalina Giraldi lived in Casal Monferrato
20:14in the kingdom of Piedmont, Sardinia.
20:17And Jose and Manuela Reyna lived in Sevilla, Spain.
20:21I don't know what, if anything, they knew about the 13 colonies which had gained their independence from the British
20:27Empire.
20:28But here's what I'm certain of.
20:30They could have never imagined that 250 years later, one of their direct descendants would be back here today on
20:39this continent as the chief diplomat of that infant nation.
20:43And yet here I am, reminded by my own story that both our histories and our fates will always be
20:52linked.
20:54Together we rebuilt the shattered continent in the wake of two devastating world wars.
20:59When we found ourselves divided once again by the Iron Curtain, the Free West linked arms with the courageous dissidents
21:06struggling against tyranny in the East to defeat Soviet communism.
21:11We have fought against each other, then reconciled, then fought, then reconciled again.
21:17And we have bled and died side by side on battlefields from Kapyong to Kandahar.
21:26And I am here today to leave it clear that America is charting the path for a new century of
21:33prosperity.
21:34And that once again, we want to do it together with you, our cherished allies and our oldest friends.
21:54We want to do it together with you, with a Europe that is proud of its heritage and of its
22:00history.
22:01With a Europe that has the spirit of creation and liberty that sent ships out into uncharted seas and birthed
22:07our civilization.
22:09With a Europe that has the means to defend itself and the will to survive.
22:15We should be proud of what we achieved together in the last century.
22:20But now we must confront and embrace the opportunities of a new one.
22:27Because yesterday is over. The future is inevitable.
22:32And our destiny together awaits. Thank you.
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