Rubio: The Old World Is Gone, We Live In A New Era In Geopolitics That Requires Us To Re-Examine Our Role
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to media as he departs to attend Munich Security Conference.
REPORTER: What do you think the Europeans are hoping to hear? Something more conciliatory than last year? SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO: I think they want honesty. They want to know where we’re going, where we’d like to go, where we’d like to go with them. So, that’s our hope. It’s an important conference. It’s my third time, twice, as Secretary of State. We’ll have a lot of members of Congress there as well. We’ll see them tomorrow as well. So, it’s important. And I think it’s at a defining moment. And I refer you back to even the speech or the statement I gave during my nomination hearing as Secretary of State. The world is changing very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone, frankly. The world I grew up in. And we live in a new era in geopolitics. And it’s going to require all of us to sort of re-examine what that looks like and what our role is going to be. And we’ve had many of these conversations in private with many of our allies. And they are our allies. And we need to continue to have those conversations. And I think Saturday, hopefully, and the meetings we’ll have there will move us in that direction.
