{"id":2639225,"date":"2026-08-02T12:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-lessons-from-secretary-rubios-rousing-speech-about-leftist-terrorism\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:26:39","slug":"three-lessons-from-secretary-rubios-rousing-speech-about-leftist-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-lessons-from-secretary-rubios-rousing-speech-about-leftist-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Lessons from Secretary Rubio&#8217;s Rousing Speech About Leftist Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthree-lessons-from-secretary-rubios-rousing-speech-about-leftist-terrorism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2639225&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The provided content appears to be a web page segment with embedded advertisements and a detailed article about Secretary of State Marco Rubio&#8217;s recent speech. In the speech, Rubio addressed the global threat of leftist terrorism, emphasizing that it is often overlooked or dismissed as a right-wing conspiracy. He highlighted recent and past examples of leftist violence worldwide, including acts in Greece, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, and the United States. Rubio argued that leftist terrorism is an active and growing threat rooted in hatred for civilization and is connected to communist ideology. He called for international cooperation to combat these groups through intelligence sharing, law enforcement, and disrupting financial networks. Rubio also presented the case that the West must unite in confronting and dismantling these terrorist networks, which operate across borders.The piece concludes with commentary on the importance of recognizing and fighting this form of terrorism to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-announces-national-security-threat-this-raises-some-questions\/\" title=\"Biden Administration flags security ..., prompts inquiries\">protect global security<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently gave a Reaganesque <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2026\/07\/remarks-at-the-opening-of-the-ministerial-on-the-resurgence-of-political-terrorism\">speech<\/a> to a room full of representatives from 67 different countries, urging them to join the United States in our efforts to cease the mounting, worldwide terrorist network that stems from the leftist ideologies of Marxism, socialism, and communism.<\/p>\n<p>The following are three critical points that he made.<\/p>\n<h4>1. Too Many Dismiss Leftist Terrorism as a Right-Wing \u201cConspiracy Theory\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>Since 2001, most of the world has rightly recognized the evil of Islamist terrorism; however, they deny the existence of leftist terrorism. Thankfully, the current Trump administration recognizes this horrific reality. In its 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026-USCT-Strategy-1.pdf\">counterterrorism strategy<\/a>, it names the following three major types of terrorism: \u201cnarcoterrorists and transnational gangs; legacy Islamist terrorists; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-uncritically-publishes-far-left-orgs-attack-on-breitbart-conservative-media-facebook\/\" title=\"Washington Post Uncritically Publishes Far-... Org&#039;s Attack on Breitbart, Conservative Media, Facebook\">violent left-wing extremists<\/a>, including anarchists and anti-Fascists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring \u2014 or even <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >justifying \u2014 leftist terrorism severely weakens nations\u2019 security<\/a> and makes millions of people around the world more vulnerable. Rubio said, \u201cEven today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy.\u00a0It\u2019s treated this way by many in the press, by many in academia and our universities, and by many of our legacy institutions.\u00a0You will no doubt see the dogma rear its head in the coverage of this very conference.\u201d He was right: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/7\/16\/us-hosts-global-meet-on-far-left-terror-whos-attending-why-it-matters\">Here<\/a> is just one such example.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio explained that, in the United States, \u201cso many people in positions of power have repeatedly dismissed acts of violence and even terrorism as legitimate forms of political expression so long as they served a left-wing cause.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is why during those George Floyd \u2026 riots in the summer of 2020, as criminals and extremists burned and looted their way through \u2026 America\u2019s great cities and nearly brought the country to its knees, city governments all across the country simply refused to prosecute the people conducting these acts of violence and terror. It is the reason for the now infamous image \u2014 and you all recall this \u2014 of a news anchor from a very prominent agency \u2014 a news anchor standing in a neighborhood consumed in flames; meanwhile the chyron on the bottom read that the protests were \u2018mostly peaceful.\u2019 This was something worse than a double standard.\u00a0Left-wing violence was not just excused; it was treated as sacrosanct, a protected class unto itself.\u00a0That era has to end.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thankfully, more countries\u2019 leaders (regardless of whether they agree with the Trump administration on other issues) are realizing the growth of leftist terrorism because, sadly, they are witnessing firsthand the loss of lives due to this evil. Rubio cited specific examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou came here \u2014 you are here \u2014 because two weeks ago, a 72-year-old woman was burned on over 80% of her body in her own home in Greece, and she died, executed by a firebomb because her daughter dared to stand for office.\u00a0You are here today because for five days this winter the lights went out in Berlin, the longest blackout in the city since the Second World War, sparked by an attack that left tens of thousands of households without power in the freezing cold and left an 83-year-old woman dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are here, and you came, because a month after that Berlin blackout, a French 23-year-old succumbed to traumatic brain injuries, beaten to death on the streets of Lyon by a group of far-left militant thugs.\u00a0You are here because your political leaders are being attacked and stabbed and shot in your streets, because your businesses have been bombed, because your railways have been sabotaged, because your police officers have been beaten and burned.\u00a0You are here because this is real, and it is getting worse, and it can no longer be denied, and it can no longer be ignored, because it is time to crush this evil forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>2. Far-Left Terrorism Is Nothing New: Remember Examples from the Last 60 Years<\/h4>\n<p>Secretary Rubio then reminded the world leaders that, collectively, we have suffered the horrors of leftist terrorism over the last six decades: \u201cThe simple fact is none of this that I\u2019ve just described is new.\u00a0Far-left political terrorism is not a recent-day, modern novelty.\u00a0It is not a fiction manufactured by conservative politicians.\u00a0For most of the modern era, it was, in fact, the dominant form of political violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He listed examples that our neighbors in the Western Hemisphere have experienced: kidnappings, bombings, assassinations, and executions; terror of the Tupamaros, of the Montoneros, of the FARC, of the ELN; \u201cthe inhuman savagery of Peru\u2019s Shining Path; the Maoist fanatics who massacred the peasant villages of Peru, hacking pregnant women and newborn infants to death with axes and machetes; you remember the tens of thousands of Marxist guerrillas trained to kill in Castro\u2019s terrorist camps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He next named horrific leftist terrorist acts that Europe experienced over the years: \u201cmachine gun massacres of Italy\u2019s Red Brigades, which held the five-time prime minister captive for 55 days before subjecting him to a revolutionary, so-called \u2018people\u2019s trial\u2019 and executing him in 1978\u201d; \u201cthe Red Army Faction\u2019s nearly three-decade campaign of bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations in Germany, murdering dozens and injuring hundreds more\u201d; and \u201cthe 17 November organization in Greece, the Marxist extremists that terrorized Athens for more than a quarter century, including, by the way, shooting my country\u2019s CIA station chief dead outside of his home in front of his wife as they were returning home from a Christmas party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he described the leftist terrorist acts that Americans remember: the Weather Underground, which bombed the Pentagon, the State Department, and the Capitol; \u201cthe Black Liberation Army, which staged armed robberies and executed police officers at point-blank range; the Symbionese Liberation Army, which shot a public school superintendent to death with cyanide-packed hollow-point bullets.\u00a0In one 18-month period between 1971 and 1972, the FBI counted some 2,500 bombings on American soil, a rate of nearly five a day.\u00a0The overwhelming  of that violence came from left-wing extremists.\u00a0Between 1970 and 1980, 93% of terrorist attacks in the West came from the far extremist Left.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>3. Today, We Face an Evil Driven by Hatred for Civilization Itself: The Free World Must Fight Them Together<\/h4>\n<p>Ultimately, Rubio explained, the world is facing a \u201cnew wave\u201d of leftist terrorism. We have not seen this many plots and attacks in decades. Over the past year, Germany has seen a 40% increase leftist violence while Greece has seen an 80% increase.<\/p>\n<p>And in America, we have experienced assaults on immigration officers; \u201ca transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray, his gun marked with slogans like, \u2018Where is your God now?\u2019; a health care executive executed in cold blood in the streets; multiple assassination attempts on a sitting president; and the murder of the greatest conservative activist of a generation, a man who happened also to be a husband and the father of two young children, shot and killed while speaking to a crowd of students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rubio then pushed back on a notion that is often floated around: that communism \u201csounds good in theory, but it never works in practice\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s actually not true.\u00a0Communism does not sound good in theory.\u00a0The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, grey, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul.\u00a0The world it envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity or ambition, a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards, a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things.\u00a0And the world communism envisions is a world without God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization \u2014 for them it\u2019s an unbearable humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be.\u00a0So they choose instead to destroy. They attack pipelines; they attack railroads; they attack power grids and laboratories, the physical embodied symbols of power and invention and achievement.\u00a0This is the nature of the terrorism we face today.\u00a0They despise the West because the West is great.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, leftist terrorists have a complex, international network: \u201cToday\u2019s far-left terrorists can raise money in one country; they can host their communications in a second country; they can receive training in a third country; they can recruit militants in a fourth country, and then together strike a target in a fifth country.\u00a0And so, we have no choice but to confront this menace together.\u00a0We will either cooperate across our borders or the terrorists will continue to exploit the gaps between them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, he explained, the Trump administration is building an international partnership to defeat these terrorists, to disrupt Antifa terror networks and their allies, and designate violent far-left extremist groups.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe can \u2014 and we must \u2014 identify and map this threat and rebuild our counterterrorism architecture to defeat it.\u00a0Just as we have done together before, now we must do it together again.\u00a0Through intelligence and information sharing, through coordinated law enforcement strategy, through financial targeting and disruption, we will dismantle these networks brick by brick.\u00a0It is time for the people of the civilized world to defend ourselves, to stand united against this encroaching darkness, and fight \u2014 fight for what is ours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is easy to destroy great things; it is far more difficult to make them.\u00a0The enemies of civilization are only capable of the former.\u00a0They are only capable of destroying great things.\u00a0All they know is destruction. 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