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Marco Rubio delivers tough love to Europe — and the overgrown teenage brats know ‘dad’ is right

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

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s impressive performance at the Munich Security Conference gives us an alluring glimpse of the president he could be one day.

Rubio 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 VP JD Vance’s address that jarred the same forum last year, but was delivered with a mellifluous voice and calm humility that disarmed even the most arch Euro-socialist.

Rubio 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 Ischinger expressed afterwards, as he motioned to the audience to sit and praised Rubio’s “message of reassurance.”

Except, as Rubio later told a Bloomberg journalist who was trying to find a wedge between him and his friend Vance: “I think it’s the same message.”

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The beauty of the speech, large parts of which were written by Rubio, was its broad-brush clarity.

He mapped out precisely how and why the West had lost our way. In the euphoria of our Cold War triumph we fell for the “dangerous delusion that we had entered the end of history,” that every nation would now be a liberal democracy and we would “live in a world without........

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