Artak Zakarian, a member of the Supreme Council of the Armenian Republican Party (RPA), wrote:
“US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference should be viewed as a foreign policy plan for President Trump’s supporters, as well as the post-Trump Republican Party.
One could say that Rubio proposed a formula for making the West “influential and great again,” combining Trumpism and Reaganism.
At the same time, Rubio introduced a conceptual innovation, declaring that the West is not simply an institutional alliance of NATO or other multilateral structures, but, above all, a civilization united by history, culture, and religious heritage. This approach allows Washington to work directly with European societies, bypassing their political elites.
The economic section of the speech was a critique of deindustrialization, subsidies to competitors, and the disruption of supply chains, suggesting a future shift toward economic nationalism.
Another, no less important point…” Rubio’s speech focused on the US’s willingness to act without the participation of international institutions. Listing the Trump administration’s foreign policy actions, the US Secretary of State emphasized that Washington can pursue its desired policies without international structures, including the UN.
Politically, within the American establishment, the pair of J. Vance and M. Rubio appears to be viewed as a possible post-Trump Republican team.
In essence, the US is not relinquishing leadership, but rather shifting its governance model from liberal globalism to civilizational realism, where allies are offered a choice: act with America or observe its actions.
The foreign policies of the superpowers are about to become more tense and nervous.
Small powers have one problem: avoid being trampled and thereby try to preserve their national identity and sovereignty.
Marco Rubio’s speech also suggests that if Armenia does not want to be completely absorbed and, while crying out for peace, avoid suffering future blows, it must return from foreign liberal governance to its own model: “Nation State and National Unity.”