Host Joseph Mullen and Kim Ives review and comment on U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Feb. 14, 2026 speech to the Munich Security Conference, in which he urged European nations to join the U.S. in “defending a great civilization that has every reason to be proud of its history, confident of its future, and aims to always be the master of its own economic and political destiny.”
It was the most openly imperialist speech by a U.S. diplomat in a century and pointed to “godless communism” as the enemy against which the U.S. and Europe should unite to defend “Western civilization,” saying “we are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers.”
After reacting to Rubio’s speech, Ives gives a summary of de facto Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé’s current political dilemma and project to woo political parties to support his government take-over, using the Haitian Constitution’s Article 149, which stiplulates that he must hold presidential elections within 120 days after Feb. 7, an impossibility.
