国务卿马可·卢比奥周三在希腊雅典发表了一场全面演讲，猛烈抨击开放边界和全球主义。这场演讲时而听起来更像竞选拉票演说，而非外交政策讲话。“我们开放了边境，将产业外包，任由军队萎缩衰败，”卢比奥在雅典古城堡夕阳西下的背景下说道。“‘民族主义’这个词变成了贬义词。于是我们拆毁了自己的纪念碑，谴责了自己的历史，在许多地方，我们还教导孩子们为自己将继承的国家感到羞耻，”他继续说道。
Secretary of State Marco Rubio took aim at open borders and globalism Wednesday in a sweeping speech in Athens, Greece that at times sounded more like a campaign stump speech than a foreign policy address. "We opened our borders and outsourced our industry and allowed our militaries to wither and to decay," Rubio said against the backdrop of the sun setting on the ancient citadel in Athens. "The word nationalism became a dirty word. And so we tore down our monuments, we condemned our own history, and in too many places we taught our children to be ashamed of the countries they would inherit," he continued.
“随着岁月流逝，我们似乎将越来越多的主权外包，把决策权交给了那些远超我们控制范围的全球官僚机构。”卢比奥和副总统JD·范斯都被广泛视为特朗普在2028年的潜在继任者，而特朗普本人也多次煽动猜测，究竟两人中谁会继承他的政治衣钵。卢比奥认为，其后果如今正体现在一个日益危险的世界中。特朗普的反恐战略在全球恐怖威胁面前取得重大胜利。
"And with every passing year, we seemed to outsource more of our sovereignty, transferring our decisions to global bureaucracies far beyond the reach of our control." Rubio and Vice President JD Vance have both been widely discussed as potential successors to Trump in 2028, with the president himself repeatedly fueling speculation over which of the two could inherit his political mantle. Rubio argued the consequences were now playing out in an increasingly dangerous world. TRUMP’S COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGY SCORES BIG WINS AGAINST GLOBAL TERROR THREATS "As the West's confidence faltered, its adversaries and rivals only grew more assertive," he said.
“当西方的信心动摇时，其对手和竞争对手却变得更加咄咄逼人，”他说。卢比奥称当前时刻是一个“转折点”，并警告说，西方所面临的威胁“与古代时期一样真实。”“如今战争再次爆发，大国之间的竞争也再度出现，”他说。卢比奥特别点名伊朗，鲜明地区分了西方价值观与其对手价值观。“像伊朗激进穆拉们那样的狂热分子，他们的死亡崇拜将儿童自杀式袭击者奉为国家英雄，并将殉道视为终极目的，”卢比奥说。“我们的英雄或许愿意为事业牺牲，但我们的英雄并不崇拜死亡，”他接着说道。
Rubio called the current moment an "inflection point," warning that the threats facing the West are "every bit as real as they were during antiquity." "And now there is war again. There is competition between great powers again," he said. Rubio singled out Iran as he drew a sharp distinction between Western values and those of its adversaries. "Fanatics like the radical mullahs of Iran, whose cult of death hails child suicide bombers as national heroes and portrays martyrdom as an end to itself," Rubio said. "Our heroes may be willing to die for their cause, but our heroes do not worship death," he went on.
正是因为我们珍视生命，才会认识到那些宁可牺牲生命也不愿背叛原则的人所展现出的英雄气概。国务卿站在雅典卫城上发表了演讲，借助西方文明的发源地，追溯了美国自身从古希腊继承而来的文明血脉。“两千五百年以来，帕特农神庙始终屹立不倒。在其阴影之下，帝国兴起又衰落，”鲁比奥说。“美国共和国建立于两个半世纪前，而它诞生于我此刻所站之地的另一端。今天，我站在这里——作为这个共和国的国务卿，也作为从西班牙来到新大陆的定居者的曾孙——我来此作证：这份债，无论时间如何流逝，空间如何遥远，都永远无法被抹去。”
"It is precisely because we value life, that we come to recognize the heroism in those who would sooner sacrifice it than to betray their principles." The secretary of State delivered the address from the Acropolis, using the birthplace of Western civilization to trace America's own inheritance from Ancient Greece. "For twenty-five centuries since, the Parthenon has stood. Empires have risen and fallen beneath its shadow," Rubio said. "Two and a half centuries after the founding of the American republic halfway across the world from where I stand now, I stand here today – as the Secretary of State of that republic, and as the great-grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain – I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space, can ever extinguish."
鲁比奥表示，他看到欧洲已开始出现逆转他所描述趋势的迹象。“我们相信，欧洲能够从漫长的沉睡中觉醒，重新点燃在此处千年前被点燃的火焰，”鲁比奥说。“已经有迹象显现。在这片大陆上，我们正在见证一场我们希望会延续数代人的变革的开端。”访问期间，鲁比奥宣布了美国与希腊之间一项新的反恐合作计划。
Rubio said he saw signs that Europe was beginning to reverse the trends he described. "We believe that Europe can awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was lit here millennia ago," Rubio said. "There are already signs. Across this continent, we are witnessing the beginning of what we hope will be a generational shift." During his visit, Rubio announced a new counterterrorism partnership between the U.S. and Greece.
周三，他强调了希腊的战略重要性，称其为“动荡世界中的一股稳定力量”。“当你们看到一个正面临这些动荡事件的世界时，就会意识到与希腊的联盟对美国而言有多么重要，”鲁比奥说。“它是在动荡世界中的一股稳定力量。”今年2月，在德国举行的慕尼黑安全会议上，鲁比奥就这一主题发表演讲，赢得了欧洲领导人的起立鼓掌，并在网上获得了数百万次观看。
He emphasized the strategic importance of Greece on Wednesday, calling it a "source of stability in an unstable world." "As you see a world that faces these destabilizing events, you recognize how important this alliance with Greece is to the United States," Rubio said. "It is a source of stability in an unstable world." At the Munich Security Conference in Germany in February, Rubio delivered a speech on the topic that earned him a standing ovation from European leaders, and racked up millions of views online.
一位广受欢迎的X用户称其为“几十年来国务卿发表的最伟大的演讲之一”。许多其他人则坚称，这场演讲提升了鲁比奥在2028年总统选举中的潜在胜算。
One popular X user described it as "one of the greatest" speeches by a Secretary of State in decades. Many others insisted the speech upped Rubio's potential 2028 presidential chances.
在美国迎来建国250周年之际，我们最辉煌的篇章仍在前方。卢比奥描述了第二次世界大战结束前的五个世纪——那是一个西方势力遍布全球、建立“庞大帝国”的时代。但他指出，战后欧洲沦为废墟，而欧洲爆发的“无神论共产主义革命”让人们相信，西方的主导地位已永远终结。“在那种背景下，正如今天一样，许多人开始认为西方的主导时代已经结束，我们的未来注定只能成为过去微弱而模糊的回响。但我们的先辈们共同认识到，衰落是一种选择，而他们拒绝做出这种选择。”他说道。
AS AMERICA MARKS 250 YEARS, OUR GREATEST CHAPTERS ARE STILL AHEAD OF US Rubio described the five centuries before the end of World War II, a time when the West had expanded across the globe, building "vast empires." But, he said, after the war, Europe was in ruins, and "godless communist revolutions" in Europe caused people to believe that the West's dominance was forever finished. "Against that backdrop, then, as now, many came to believe that the West's age of dominance had come to an end, and that our future was destined to be a faint and feeble echo of our past. But together, our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, and it was a choice they refused to make," he said.
卢比奥敦促欧洲领导人重新点燃这种精神。“这就是为什么我们不希望我们的盟友被内疚和羞耻所束缚，”他继续说道，“我们希望盟友为我们文化和传统感到自豪，明白我们是同一伟大而高尚文明的继承者，并愿意与我们一起捍卫它。”而不是用说辞来合理化破碎的现状，而不去直面解决问题所必需的一切。因为作为美国，我们对以温和有序的方式守护西方被人为控制的衰落毫无兴趣。我们寻求的并非分离，而是重振古老的友谊，并复兴人类历史上最伟大的文明。
Rubio urged the European leaders to reinvigorate that spirit. "This is why we do not want out allies to be shackled by guilt and shame," he continued. "We want allies that are proud of our culture and our heritage, and understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization and who together with us, are willing and able to defend it." o rationalize the broken status quo, rather than what is necessary to reckon with what is necessary to fix it. For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline. We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history."