Rubio in Greece: ‘Nationalism is not a dirty word’

Speaking beneath the Acropolis, Rubio traced the West’s inheritance from ancient Greece through Rome and Christendom to the American founding before turning to what he described as its modern retreat:

nations ashamed of their achievements, nationalism made a “dirty word,” open borders, outsourced industry, weakened militaries, and sovereignty increasingly surrendered to global bureaucracies.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Rubio at Birthplace of Western Civilization

West Must Rediscover Greatness or Face ‘Servitude and Decline’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned from the birthplace of Western civilization Wednesday that the West must rediscover the qualities that made it great or resign itself to “atrophy and servitude and decline,” declaring that the choices made over the next decade could determine its course for the next century.

Rubio in Greece to Renew Call for West to Fight Civilizational Decline

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will use an address in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday to renew his call for Americans and Europeans to join as one in a great renewal of the Western spirit.

He sees a common heritage stretching from the ancient Greek capital and Rome to Christendom and the founding of the landmark American Republic.

All of that is currently being torn asunder in Europe as seen by tens of thousands of illegal migrants walking into Britain after crossing the English Channel via people smugglers while the streets of France are on fire and roiled by ultra-left protesters challenging the established order.

At the center of Rubio’s argument was the ancient Greek concept of thumos — the spirit of ambition, courage, and pride that he said allowed civilizations not merely to survive, but to strive.

“The thumos, as the ancient Greeks called it — the fire of passion, strength, courage, pride — is the heart of great civilization,” Rubio said. “And without it? Without it, nations lose their will to fight, the will to strive, the will to survive.”

Rubio argued that much of the modern West had lost precisely that quality, becoming ashamed rather than proud of the achievements that distinguished it.


Grotesque Golden Trump Statue Installed in EU Parliament

Danish Artist Jens Galschiot’s eight-foot gilded statue “The Orange Plague” has been installed in a major thoroughfare connecting European Parliament offices in Strasbourg, France. The gross caricature of U.S. President Donald Trump shows the artist’s vision of a naked Trump holding a golf club and the scales of justice while riding on the shoulders of another male.

EUSSR Degenerates are beneath contempt. Pathetic.

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