Rubio forceful case for Trump’s policies without his stylistic excesses
The secretary of state Rubio Points makes a forceful case for Trump’s policies without his stylistic excesses.
It’s amazing what you can achieve if you resist the temptation to say you’re going to annex Greenland.
The Republican Party in office in this century was defined by a hubris and a myopia that combined to produce
one of the worst foreign-policy disasters in American history
Two Decades Later, the Iraq War Is Hard to Defend
and the most serious economic crisis in three-quarters of a century.
The financial crisis that began 13 months ago has entered a new, far more serious phase. Lingering hopes that the damage could be contained to a handful of financial institutions that made bad bets on mortgages have evaporated. Sept. 18, 2008
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122169431617549947
The Trumpian defense is that you don’t get these desirable outcomes without the ugliness.
Europe is a case in point: Would the rest of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ever get its act together without an American president threatening to take its territory and promising to walk out of a security treaty?
At home, would you get this kind of immigration reform or reversal of woke intolerance without an attack on many of our freedoms?
I’d like to think the answer is yes: You don’t have to be offensive to be effective; you don’t have to be abusive to disabuse. But don’t take my word for it.
Gerard Baker Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 2026
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/in-munich-rubio-points-to-a-path-forward-for-the-gop-c32a1a42
BBC: Rubio speech signals US-Europe relations
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2026/02/bbc-rubio-speech-signals-us-europe.html
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