Erinnerungspolitische Bezüge in Rubios Rede werden mit Gaulands "Vogelschiss" verglichen. Doch Rubio geht weiter: Europa liegt bei ihm völlig unvermittelt "in ruins", der NS spielt in seiner Geschichtspolitik nicht mal mehr eine Vogelschiss-Rolle, er bleibt ganz außen vor. "For five centuries, 1/5
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2/6 before the end of WW II, the West had been expanding – its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe. But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, it 3/6 was contracting. Europe was in ruins. [Kein Wort zu NS, nicht mal Vogelschiss] Half of it lived behind an Iron Curtain & the rest looked like it would soon follow. The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions & by anti-colonial 4/6 uprisings that would transform the world & drape the red hammer & sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years to come.[...] But together, our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, & it was a choice they refused to make.[...] And this is why we do not want our allies to be weak 5/6 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 [...]" 6/6 Wenn Rubio die NS-Verbrechen gg die Menschheit, 80 Jahre nach dem Nürnberger Prozess, gar nicht mehr erwähnt, wenn historisches Unrecht nur noch "red hammer and sickle" ist und kein Hakenkreuz mehr - dann fällt ihm (und anderen) der Appell, die "shackles of shame and guilt" abzulegen, leichter.