Hello, it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini episode of Podforce One. This feature is a little

more topical and relevant to my day job as a columnist for The New York Post. Today's topic is

Marco Rubio's magnificent speech in Munich on the weekend,

and the stark contrast to the pygmy Democrats like AOC and Gavin Newsom,

who hovered around the fringes of the conference vying for the title of least impressive

presidential candidate of 2028.

An American statesman was born on a German stage on the weekend.

The Secretary of State's impressive performance at the Munich Security Conference

gives us an alluring glimpse of the president he could be one day.

Ribio drew a standing ovation from the

assembled European heads of state, intelligence chiefs, and military leaders for a speech that was

no less forceful or frank than Vice President J.D. Vance's address that jarred the same forum last

year, but was delivered with a

mollifluous voice and calm humility that disarmed even the most arch Euro-socialist.

Ribbio was warm and reassuring rather than sneering and contemptuous, but that was no accident.

He was playing good cop to Vance's bad cop, a strategy that paid off

with the collective sigh of relief that conference chairman Wolfgang Istkinga expressed afterwards

his emotion to the audience to sit down and praised Rubio's, quote, message of reassurance.

Except, as Rubio later told a Bloomberg journalist who was trying to find a wedge between

him and his friend Vance, quote, I think it's the same message, end quote.

They're on the same team, for now anyway.

The beauty of the speech, large parts of which

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