The “delusion” of globalism and the decision to allow mass migration into the West threaten the future of Europe and its peoples, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told attendees at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday. Representing the Trump administration at the annual international meeting in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Secretary of State Rubio stressed that the United States and Europe must remain strong allies, but warned against the arrogant follies that emerged following the end of the Cold War, such as the devotion to free trade, green-inspired de-industrialisation, and the ethos of open borders.
These liberal beliefs, stemming from Francis Fukuyama’s notion of “the end of history”, were “foolish” and fundamentally contradicted the very basis of human nature, Mr Rubio argued. This resulted in the West losing millions of middle and working-class jobs, as well as critical supply chains to competitors like Communist China. Meanwhile, in an effort to “appease a climate cult”, the West further damaged itself and allowed its rivals to “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 future of our people,” the Secretary said.
