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Conrad Black: Rubio’s Seminal Munich Speech Charts US-Europe Path to Rebuilding Strength

Conrad Black: Rubio’s Seminal Munich Speech Charts US-Europe Path to Rebuilding Strength
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivers a keynote speech at the 62nd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 14, 2026. Johannes Simon/Getty Images
Conrad Black
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a seminal, very successful, and much-appreciated address to the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 14. He emphasized that the United States and Europe are effectively inseparable, that the alliance between them had repelled the mortal threat of Soviet communism, and that any thought of it being obsolete or superfluous was nonsense.
Conrad Black
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.