You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference

and lessons from Rubio on how to view history and the future. We're glad you're with us this week.

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Welcome to Breakpoint this week.

From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Baer, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center. John, let's start this week in Germany. Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State,

gave a speech to a standing ovation about really the partnership between the U.S. and Europe,

and including our shared history and a vision moving forward.

You know, I think I could read between the lines that he's trying to, you know, promote good vibes.

That would be my take on it.

He's trying to promote a stronger relationship in trade

and defense. It was much less of a scolding that, you know, as Vice President J.D. Vance's

speech at the same conference, I think a couple of years ago. But it was a really uplifting

and powerful speech, I thought. Did you read any kind of

cultural signaling into some of the things he was saying, for example, about immigration or about

history or about, you know, it not being xenophobic, for example, to want to preserve your

way of life and your people? Well, all that was in there, and I think it all matters, and it certainly matters from a political

point of view, which is, you know, somewhat unusual, because I think political speeches used

to matter a lot more than they do now.

I mean, you can really count on one hand the number of political speeches that have moved

the needle, you know, since the

middle of the 20th century, maybe President Obama's, his first acceptance speech or inauguration

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