Last week, world leaders gathered in
Germany for the annual Munich Security
Conference, a meeting that has
increasingly become a barometer for the
stability of the global world order.
Over 115 countries were represented at
this year's conference, including more
than 60 heads of state, 30 defense
ministers, and 40 international
organizations. And the timing of this
event could not be more critical. As
we've started 2026, we've seen the
United States openly threaten to annex
Greenland. We've seen the US government
launch a military invasion into
Venezuela, and we are now witnessing
increased threats against Iran as Donald
Trump contemplates yet another military
strike. Trump wants you to believe that
he stopped eight wars last year. But in
reality, the US government has created
more instability and chaos as Trump
doubles down on one of the most
aggressive foreign policies we've ever
seen from any US president. But
interesting enough, it was the US
Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who
became the highlight of the conference,
delivering a speech that received a
standing ovation and left many people
feeling optimistic about the future of
the world. But what if I told you
everything said during Rubio's speech
was a complete facade. And while Rubio
tried to convince the world the United
States is winning, the exact opposite is
happening. In today's video, I'm going
to break down every important word Rubio
said during his speech and explain why
the West is collectively walking into
the biggest trap that will completely
shift the balance of global power. But
first, let me lay down the framework for
this video. And just look at this tweet
from US Senator Mark Kelly. It took a
world war and 8 decades to build the
strongest alliance that this world had
ever seen. It took less than a year to
practically destroy it. When Secretary
Rubio said the Old World Order was dead
during his speech in Munich, he was
right. It's dead because Donald Trump
blew it up. He thinks this somehow
benefits us. He is wrong. Our allies no
longer trust us. It was obvious in the
more than a dozen meetings I had with
presidents, prime ministers, and defense
and foreign ministers. China is now more
popular in Denmark than the United
States. In Poland, the US is 21% less
popular than it used to be. This means
these countries are looking elsewhere
for trade and security that makes you
poorer and less safe. I know there was a
celebration at the end of the Munich
Security Conference. Unfortunately, the
Champagne Corks were popping in Beijing
and Moscow. Now, to understand exactly
what Senator Kelly is referring to, just
look at this graph from the Financial
Times, which shows an unbelievable
trend. From Great Britain to Denmark,
France to Germany, Italy, and Spain, the
United States reputation has plummeted
to an all-time low across all of our
European allies. And when America's
reputation goes down, that usually means
China's reputation is improving. And
just listen to the comments from
Finland's prime minister as he explains
what happens next.
I think what Europe will end up doing is
hedging and de-risking a little bit.
That's why you see a quick trade
agreement finally with Mercur. to see a
trade agreement with India. I don't
exclude some kind of an investment
agreement in the long run with China
either. And I think you're going to
start seeing this type of behavior
coming from other countries as well. So
instead of leaning in on tariffs and a
multipolar world and retaliation, people
are going to start saying, "Okay, let
let's go back to the rules that existed
because they were much more stable." And
this, I think, pertains to both small
countries and big countries. Over the
last few weeks, we've seen a record
number of trade deals signed into power,
and all of them are the result of
countries realizing that tariffs,
sanctions, and an aggressive foreign
policy from the US government is not in
the best interest of the world. Listen
to that most important part of that clip again.
I don't exclude some kind of investment agreement in the long run with China
either. Europe is now looking at a long-term investment agreement with China. And if you were following what happened during the first six weeks of 2026, you'll know that no less than six of America's closest allies, including France,
Ireland, South Korea, Finland, Canada, and the UK, have all sent their respective leaders to Beijing to sign new trade deals with the Chinese government. The shift began a few weeks earlier in Davos, Switzerland, when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced to the world the end of
American hegemony and the existing world
order. He argued that middle powers,
countries like the UK and Canada, may
not be superpowers, but they are still
essential to the global economy, and
they can no longer rely on old alliances
alone. Instead, they must look elsewhere
for new trade partnerships and long-term
stability. Canada is now spearheading a
new agreement between the European Union
and a 12nation Indo-Pacific block to
form one of the largest economic
alliances in the world, designed
specifically to work around Trump's
tariffs. The partnership would represent
more than 1.5 billion people across over
40 countries linking the supply chains
of Canada, Singapore, Mexico, Japan,
Vietnam, Malaysia, and Australia
directly with the European Union. Trump
campaigned on the promise of making
America first. But his administration is
quickly realizing that America first now
means America alone. And to show you
exactly how we got here and what it
means for the future of our world, let's
examine Marco Rubio's speech. Now, don't
get me wrong. Margot's speech was
powerful and delivered with poise and
passion that deeply resonated with
Trump's fan base, who believes
globalization has been a failure for the
United States. Marco Rubio specifically
targeted China in his speech and didn't
hold back blaming the rise of China for
the West decline.
And it has cost us dearly. In this
delusion, we embraced a dogmatic vision
of free and unfettered trade. Even as
some nations protected their economies
and subsidized their cus companies to
systematically undercut ours, shuttering
our plants, resulting in large parts of
our societies being de-industrialized,
shipping millions of working and middle
class jobs overseas, and handing control
of our critical supply chains to both
adversaries and rivals. Rubio began his
speech with the classic framing that
China is responsible for the loss of
manufacturing jobs in the United States.
He wants you to believe that the Chinese
government gives unfair advantages to
its companies like Huawei, who do
receive government subsidies. But if you
simply fact check this, you'll find that
this is exactly what the US government
also does. Fossil fuel firms in the
United States receive over $ 31 billion
in government funding every year. And
America's most famous entrepreneur, Elon
Musk, has received billions of dollars
of funding, which has been crucial to
Tesla's survival. Let's just stop for a
second and ask a simple question. Whose
decision was it to offshore American
manufacturing to China? Did China make
threats to American CEOs and force
companies like Apple to manufacture
their products in China? Or is there
another reason? Instead of listening to
politicians like Rubio throw out
baseless claims, let's go right to the
top and listen to Apple CEO reveal the
real reason that US companies go to
China. There's a confusion about China.
Their popular conception is that
companies come to China because of low
labor cost. I'm not sure what part of
China they go to, but the truth is China
stopped being the low labor cost country
many years ago. The reason is because of
the skill, the quantity of skill in one
location and the type of skill it is.
Like the products we do require really
advanced tooling and the the precision
that you have to have in tooling and
working with the materials that we do
are state-of-the-art and the tooling
skill is very deep here. You know, in in
the US, you could have a meeting of
tooling engineers and I'm not sure we
could fill the room. In China, you could
fill multiple football fields. It's that
vocational
vocational expertise is very [music]
deep, very very deep here. It's amazing
how many people fail to realize this
point. China is not a cheap
manufacturer. Since the turn of the
century, wages in China have increased
significantly as Chinese workers
consistently earn more than many other
developing countries throughout Asia.
But listen to what Rubio blames next in
his speech. We increasingly outsourced
our sovereignty to international
institutions while many nations invested
in massive welfare states at the cost of
maintaining the ability to defend
themselves. This even as other countries
have invested in the most rapid military
buildup in all of human history and have
not hesitated to use hard power to
pursue their own interests.
Once again, this was clearly aimed at
China. Rubio wants you to believe that
China's military spending is a growing
threat to global stability. Yet, just
last month, Trump proposed raising US
military spending to roughly $1.5
trillion by 2027, the largest increase
in modern history. And then comes the
claim that China is using hard power to
pursue its interest. really. Only a few
weeks ago, the United States carried out
a military operation in Venezuela after
which Washington openly moved to control
and manage the country's oil exports. In
fact, US officials even confirmed that
oil taken under the US oversight is now
being sold directly to China,
undermining the idea that the
intervention was about preventing
Chinese purchases altogether. So, the
issue was never whether China could buy
Venezuelan oil. The issue was who
controls the revenue and the system
around it. Once again, we just continue
to see the double standards and complete
hypocrisy from the White House. But it
doesn't stop there. To appease a climate
cult, we have imposed energy policies on
ourselves that are impoverishing our
people. Even as our competitors exploit
oil and coal and natural gas and
anything else, not just to power their
economies, but to use as leverage
against our own. Once again, Rubio makes
a false claim that China is exploiting
natural resources like oil to hurt the
United States. But we just proved this
theory completely false. It was the US,
not China, who launched a military
invasion in South America specifically
for oil. And as far as climate change
and the investment of renewable energy,
Rubio might think this is a cult and not
worthy of long-term investment, but
there is no better example of success in
renewable energy than China, who is now
the undisputed world leader of renewable
energy. From wind turbines to hydro dams
to solar panels, China leads the world
in every single category. And to
understand why this matters, you simply
need to examine the massive lead China
has built over the US and every other
nation in electricity production. In
2024, China produced more electricity
than the US, Europe, and India combined.
And if you ever wonder which nation will
win the AI race, just look at which
nation is best positioned to power their
future. But this is where Marco Rubio's
speech takes a very revealing turn. As
he begins inviting Europe to join the
United States on what he frames as a
shared historical path, Rubio opent
reflects on a time when Western powers
spread across the globe and then laments
that after the end of World War II and
for the first time since the age of
Columbus, the West was forced to
contract. Rubio even describes the
collapse of European empires as a
terminal decline brought about by
communist revolutions and anti-colonial
uprisings. But what he calls decline was
for much of the world independence.
Between 1945 and 1980, more than 80
countries, mostly across Africa and
Asia, broke free from colonial rule and
gained their independence. In 1945,
nearly one-third of humanity still lived
under the UK, French, or American
empires. Yet within a single generation,
those formal colonial systems had
largely disappeared. For the global
south, this wasn't collapse. It was
liberation. Yet, in Rubio's mind,
countries gaining their independence was
a bad thing because it meant the West
was losing its power and influence
across the world. And that leads us to
the real message of this speech, a call
for the West to revive its dominance.
Rubio instructed his European
counterparts to be proud of their
heritage and defend their civilization.
a message that doubles as both a
cultural and immigration signal. Rubio
then urged Europe to help renew the
greatest civilization in human history.
In other words, Rubio's speech had very
little to do with security, which of
course was the main theme of the Munich
Security Conference. And it had
everything to do with asking the
Europeans to join the US on a new
mission to reassert control over the
global south. And that's why Rubio's
speech is so provocative. It doesn't
describe a cooperative future. It
describes a return to hierarchy, a world
where Western power once again directs
the trajectory of the global south. But
the biggest mistake Rubio made with this
speech is failing to realize that over
88% of the world's population now lives
in the global south. And after Trump
destroyed the world order, developing
countries now have options. Just look at
Latin America, for example, and how they
have shifted away from the US and Europe
over the past 25 years and strategically
moved closer to China as their top
trading partner. And if you're confused
on why Latin American countries would
shift closer to China, just look at the
difference in foreign policy in both how
the United States and China treat South
Africa, the largest and most important
economy in the continent. While Trump
hit South Africa with 30% tariffs, the
highest rate of any country in Africa,
China responded by granting the country
100% zero tariff access to its market
under a new partnership deal. This is
how business between nations advance.
This is how developing countries prosper
and improve the lives of its citizens.
More cooperation and more trade. Once
again, let's listen to the wise words of
the Finnish president as he explains why
the global south is in a powerful
position to determine the future of our
world. For demographic reasons, for
economic reasons, for geopolitical
reasons, it's going to be the global
south that decides the next world order.
And I think that there is this battle
for hearts and minds right now. to a
certain extent China is doing it, the US
is doing it. So then for me as a
European, my idea is that we need to
drive a dignified foreign policy which
means that reach out to the middle
powers, do the trade deals with India,
do the trade deals with Mercur, open up
your markets and in that sense, you
know, take a different type of approach
because in my experience in diplomacy,
you get more out of a system if you act
in a dignified manner.
What a novel concept. If you treat
others with respect and dignity, you
will gain more in the long term. And I
couldn't agree more with the Finnish
president. Trump has threatened to annex
Greenland. He has disrespected all
Canadians by undermining their
sovereignty and calling Canada the 51st
state. Trump has acted with anything but
dignity. And if you want to understand
why Rubio's speech was not received well
by anyone outside of the US and Europe,
I want you to listen to the words of
economist Jackson Hinkle, who states,
"What's most repulsive about Rubio's
speech and the warm embrace it received
from the European ruling class is that
its only vision for Western civilization
is a future of endless imperialist
violence. They have nothing else to
offer to their citizens or to the world.
No vision for addressing social and
ecological crises. No vision for
improving people's lives, no vision for
human progress, no other vision for
greatness besides violence and plunder.
It is in fact the anti-thesis of
civilization, it is barbarism. Everyone,
we are entering one of the most unstable
periods of time in geopolitics. And
while Trump can try to convince his base
that the MAGA movement is winning and an
American first policy is the best for
the future of our world, the simple
truth is that the global south and
developing countries around the world
own the future. And if the United States
will not pursue a policy of learning to
work with other countries and building a
better future for all mankind, it will
soon be on the outside looking in.
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