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   On 2/16/26 8:20 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   > On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:04:02 -0800, dart200   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2/16/26 7:43 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:48:59 -0800, dart200   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> i've been listening to the speech and my god he's so boring   
   >>>>   
   >>>> i know he's not a boomer, but he's definitely spouting boomer grade drivel   
   >>>   
   >>> How quickly they forget.   
   >>   
   >> i guess one could say he's playing his craft well:   
   >>   
   >> most of the room is boomers ...   
   >>   
   >> but i think he actually believes some of it too   
   >   
   > It is hard to know what he really believes.   
      
   i think he believe he can be president one day 👌😂👌   
      
   >   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> i'm not surprised u like it julian   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On 2/14/26 3:18 AM, Julian wrote:   
   >>>>> ...and we should take heed. It was a love letter to Europe on   
   >>>>> Valentine's Day   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The Secretary of State gave the most important speech on Western   
   >>>>> civilisation in a generation. He got a standing ovation. He meant every   
   >>>>> word. And Europe needs to hear it. We should want our interdependence,   
   >>>>> we should want our alliance, we should defend our civilization. Together.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Marco Rubio walked into the Munich Security Conference this morning and   
   >>>>> did something nobody in that room expected. He made them proud to be   
   >>>>> Western again.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The same conference that last year sat in stunned silence as JD Vance   
   >>>>> tore strips off European leaders — attacking their immigration   
   policies,   
   >>>>> their speech laws, their basic seriousness as allies — rose to its feet   
   >>>>> for the Secretary of State. Not because he was soft. Because he was   
   >>>>> better. The substance was harder than Vance, but the architecture was   
   >>>>> masterful. Where Vance gave Europe a grievance to hide behind, Rubio   
   >>>>> took it away.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> And in doing so, he reimagined what the West could be...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> https://mattkilcoyne.substack.com/p/rubio-reimagined-the-west-at-munich   
      
      
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