# Rubio: West’s course over next decade will determine its global standing

https://mins.news/en/item/90222

- TASS, 2026-10-07 18:48 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2198997

> US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a policy speech in Athens, aimed mainly at Europe, that the collective West is at a crossroads. He said it must act decisively internationally or face “servitude and decline,” and criticized Western shame over its achievements, nationalism and history, as well as the transfer of sovereignty to global bureaucracies.

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