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Trump Admin EXPOSES Their DESPERATION on the WORLD STAGE - Legal AF
At the 2026 Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a high-profile address that pressed hard-line critiques of European policies on immigration, trade and energy, echoing themes dear to the far-right — warning that mass migration and “dangerous delusions” about open borders and liberal globalism threaten the cohesion of Western societies.
Although he couched his message in more diplomatic language than last year’s blunt criticisms from JD Vance, many in Brussels and Berlin heard his call for Europe to align more closely with a U.S. worldview rooted in cultural nationalism as a thinly veiled ultimatum: embrace these ethno-nationalist priorities, or risk a U.S. that is “prepared, if necessary, to do this alone.” Anthony Davis reports. - 02/17/2026.