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Marco Rubio: “We certainly forgot it at the end of the Cold War.”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance Discuss American Industrial Policy and Geopolitical Challenges at American Compass Event

Published | Video Starts at 04:05

And I think that's really true, obviously, increasingly in how geopolitical decisions are made. I think that's obvious and people understand that. But it's one of the things that we forgot, and We certainly forgot it at the end of the Cold War. If I can take you back the end of the Cold War and understand for me these are formative years because I grew up in the 80s, the greatest, probably the greatest decade ever, confirmed by the. (04:05–04:08)

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Asserts that the importance of nationhood was forgotten at the end of the Cold War.

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