The Munich Security Conference was off to a rocky start for some people before the first attendee set foot in the building, as I told you on Friday.
One of the perpetual global government gadflies who is always a featured speaker there, former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was forced onto a commuter train like a common person when Lufthansa went on strike, emerging from a boxcar on a Munich platform disgruntled, rumpled, and ignored like every other unfortunate to zero fanfare.
Hillary Clinton arrives by train for the Munich Security Conference. 🇩🇪
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) February 12, 2026
The conference brings together hundreds of government officials, diplomats and world leaders to discuss international security policies.
Clinton last served in government in 2013.
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For the record, Hillary last served in government in 2013.
That was obvious change in the wind number one, but could be attributed to cranky German unions disrupting travel schedules.
The second had to have been a little more unsettling to watchers around the world.
The Trumpistas were coming, and loins were girded. Last year's gathering had featured a memorable tongue-lashing from the new, upity United States Vice President, J.D. Vance. Making matters worse, that incoming Trump administration had moved hard and fast across the globe in the diplomatic light year since, causing no small amount of angst to tender European and, frankly, American establishment sensibilities.
What was the reception at the conference going to be like for them this year?
Our Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, found out after a masterful twenty-two-minute speech, focused on Western European, Christian values, and warning that immigration had gone too far towards undermining all of those beliefs that once made Europe great and our ties to her so strong.
This clip from Marco Rubio's speech to the Munich Security Conference is one of the most beautifully written and forcefully delivered speeches by a Senior American official since Ronald Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"
— ⚡️David Blackmon⚡️ (@EnergyAbsurdity) February 14, 2026
Rubio lays it out in a way that… pic.twitter.com/KeAyfjxAhw
...And this is why we do not want our allies to be weak, because that makes us weaker.
We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength. This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame. We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who together with us are willing and able to defend it. And this is why we do not want allies to rationalize the broken status quo rather than 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.
For laying out our shared heritage and European failures unsparingly but succinctly, Rubio walked into... a standing ovation.
In the heart of the beast, they heard him.
Sec Marco Rubio receives a STANDING OVATION after laying down the truth.
— JJ🕊️ (@jesseyjay94) February 14, 2026
Europe is destroying their true Christian identity and civilization with mass migration pic.twitter.com/W8xARZb2CF
Speaking of beasts, there were others there who heard the speech and that ovation as well, and seemed to have received a message from it.
Because, holy SMOKES - didn't messaging suddenly change in the blink of an eye.
Hillary Clinton, for whatever reason she is still invited to this gathering, threw out what amounts to a bombshell during her appearance when the subject of immigration came up.
Hillary Clinton admits illegal immigration went too far:
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 14, 2026
“It went too far, it’s been disruptive and destabilizing.”
REMINDER: Biden let millions of unvetted illegal criminals pour into the country for four years. pic.twitter.com/JeqUxJsU7B
HANG ON HERE, WHUT
Now, this is not a new tune for Hillary. Both she and he husband ran as immigration hawks. But specifically in regard to Europe, Clinton warned them years ago that Merkel's 'generous' immigration policies were going to lead to one of Hillary's favorite whipping boys - the rise of right-wing populism.
This is what she said in 2018. She's warning Europe how to avoid a Trump and lead to more Brexits.
Europe must get a handle on immigration to combat a growing threat from rightwing populists, Hillary Clinton has said, calling on the continent’s leaders to send out a stronger signal showing they are “not going to be able to continue to provide refuge and support”.
In an interview with the Guardian, the former Democratic presidential candidate praised the generosity shown by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, but suggested immigration was inflaming voters and contributed to the election of Donald Trump and Britain’s vote to leave the EU.
“I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame,” Clinton said, speaking as part of a series of interviews with senior centrist political figures about the rise of populists, particularly on the right, in Europe and the Americas.
“I admire the very generous and compassionate approaches that were taken particularly by leaders like Angela Merkel, but I think it is fair to say Europe has done its part, and must send a very clear message – ‘we are not going to be able to continue provide refuge and support’ – because if we don’t deal with the migration issue it will continue to roil the body politic.”
Is that what she's signaling now for Europe, which is legitimate? Or is she the vanguard for a Democratic Party going into the midterms that desperately needs a message change but has a radical progressive wing fighting an issue that a majority of Americans approve of?
Clinton does seem to have the knack for being a weathervane for an impending Democratic policy shift. Contrast these two positions from 2020 and 2014.
Said the person who called to deport refugee children to send a message. https://t.co/A6Xn6I68KH
— Matthew Kolken (@mkolken) August 26, 2020
Or Hillary in the summer of 2024.
Now, with a Latino vote they can no longer count on and pandering shamelessly to is no longer effective because the demographic is actually paying attention...
Jill Biden’s latest hispandering will make your day.
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) April 1, 2021
It’s “si se puede,” Jill.
We’re not impressed. pic.twitter.com/s5aIozyjEs
...is there sweat on some upper lips?
Obama and Hillary saw this and realized the radical progressive messaging wasn’t working.
— Bo Refec (@BoRefec) February 15, 2026
Legal immigrants hate illegal immigrants the most because cutting in line is a spit in the face.
Now both are saying open borders and mass immigration was too much and caused… pic.twitter.com/XvggUf2UTT
What Democrats hadn't counted on was that, while Trump's deportation sweeps may have lost him some support among Hispanics who voted for him in '24 (the methods are the issue, not the concept, which they voted for), his success in Latin America has been overwhelmingly popular. If Cuba should also 'libre' from the Communist yoke around its neck in the next few months, Democrats will have a real Hispanic crisis on their hands.
Color me cynical, but I believe Hillary is a strategic part of a planned return to 'we've always loved secure borders and humane but gone deportations' Dem hierarchy chorus in a craven attempt to shift the messaging to position the party closer to the American general public.
Fingers up!
And oh, my goodness.
Barack Obama is now going back to opposing illegal immigration:
— America (@america) February 16, 2026
“We are a nation of laws… We have borders, and we've got to figure out an immigration policy that is orderly and that is fair.”
Democrats are starting to realize they have gone too far… pic.twitter.com/836pWBNSLd
Something Marco said must have goosed them, but good.
"In the pursuit of a world without borders we opened our doors to a wave of mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people."
And you can already sense a shift in the wind.
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