Secretary of State Marco Rubio says at the Munich conference that deindustrialization was a deliberate, decades-long policy choice that stripped nations of wealth, productive capacity, and independence.
Susan Kokinda connects Rubio’s claim to a 1977 Council on Foreign Relations report calling for the “Controlled Disintegration” of the world economy, arguing it targeted the Hamiltonian American System and helped drive the hollowing out of U.S. manufacturing and current European industrial decline.
The episode highlights European reactions, including ECB head Christine Lagarde’s warning about geo-economic fragmentation and financial fragility, and Belgium’s prime minister citing a dramatic loss of chemical production capacity linked to decarbonization.
It then argues the Trump administration is reversing the model through tariffs, industrial policy, large-scale investment, support for critical sectors, and a renewed focus on physical economy and household incomes, citing speeches by Trade Ambassador Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Examples include Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s announcement of plans to deploy a next-generation nuclear reactor in Utah and White House advisor Peter Navarro’s attack on JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon amid a push to cut credit card rates from 20–30% to 10%.
Chapters
00:00 The Monday Brief
01:59 Rubio at Munich — and the Globalist Panic
07:30 The 1977 Blueprint — CFR’s “Controlled Disintegration”
10:30 Trump’s Counter-Attack — The American System in Action
Snapshots and Notes
At the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio blew the lid off of a 50-year-old conspiracy - he said that the destruction of the American economy was deliberate.
“Deindustrialization was not inevitable.
“It was a conscious policy choice, a decades-long economic undertaking that stripped our nations of their wealth, of their productive capacity, and of their independence.”
Click here for his full speech
It wasn’t an accident nor market forces; it was a plan written down 50 years ago, and today you’re going to receive the receipts.
You’ve seen the reports about the US-European face-off at Munich, how the globalists marched a lineup of failing European leaders and American has-beens and wannabes, onto the stage to challenge President Trump.
But even the pro-MAGA coverage of Marco Rubio’s powerful speech missed the bombshell: the deindustrialization was deliberate.
Promethean Action and others who were alert to what was really happening didn’t miss it because they were there in 1977 when the Council on Foreign Relations announced its plan to do it by calling for a …
Susan Kokinda was part of the team that exposed this report 50 years ago.
Upon hearing Marco Rubio speak these words, she knew that what we were seeing was the most significant challenge to British imperial policy in modern American history.
Rubio at Munich — and the Globalist Panic (01:59)
“In this delusion, we embraced a dogmatic vision of free and unfettered trade, even as some nations protected their economies and subsidized their companies to systematically undercut ours, shuttering our plants, resulting in large parts of our societies being deindustrialized, shipping millions of working and middle-class jobs overseas, and handing control of our critical supply chains to both adversaries and rivals.
“Deindustrialization was not inevitable - it was a conscious policy choice, a decades-long economic undertaking that stripped our nations of their wealth, of their productive capacity, and of their independence.
“It was a foolish but voluntary transformation of our economy that left us dependent on others for our needs and dangerously vulnerable to crisis.”
Click here for his full speech
Let those phrases sink in...
... a conscious policy choice
... a voluntary transformation of our economy
Actually, it wasn’t so voluntary, but we’ll get to that in a minute.
So what makes this speech so extraordinary?
Rubio wasn’t speaking into a vacuum.
In her Saturday brief, Barbara reviewed the collection of warmongers and anti-Trumpers who filled that room in Munich.
And she reported on the fact that the theme of the entire conference was, “UNDER DESTRUCTION," and it was a full-on attack of Trump’s policies in specific, and on the concept of national sovereignty in general.
But lurking between the lines of the conference report and speeches is this reality...
The globalists are no longer in control of the current dynamics of the world.
The conference report says that economic uncertainty is nearly three times higher than it was during the 2008 financial crisis.
Why?
We don’t have banks crashing like in 2008 - at least not yet.
That economic uncertainty stems from Donald Trump and his team declaring that the 50-year-old post-industrial model is over.
Reflecting the recognition that the jig is up, European Central Bank head Christina Lagarde titled her speech …
In it, she warned that a more assertive industrial policy is fueling geopolitical tensions and more frequent financial market stress.
Translated, that means we now have to live in a world reshaped by an assertive American industrial policy, and we who represent the global financial elite are no longer in control of the table.
Lagarde signaled a new reality when she warned about the fragility of the European financial system.
‘Fire sales of euro-denominated securities’?
A sure sign somebody is getting a little nervous.
Then she said the European Central Bank would expand its repo facility to bail out bad euro-denominated securities.
Why?
Because for decades, the Federal Reserve HAD backstopped European financial markets - that’s no longer the case and the US is no longer the lender of last resort for the gambling casino run by the City of London.
This is backed up by the Statements of Treasury Secretary Besant and the new Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh, who have made clear that America’s new economic priorities are the physical economy and household incomes, not saving the financial bacon of the international banks.
But the fragility of European financial markets is just part of the picture - the real story is that Europe is destroying itself physically.
A few days before Munich, the Prime Minister of Belgium delivered a stark message to the European Industry Summit in Antwerp.
“Over the past four years, announced closures in the European chemical industry have increased sixfold, representing a loss of almost 10% of European chemical production capacity.
“In countries like ours, Germany, the Netherlands, and France, the situation is simply dramatic.
“We are at the brink of an existential crisis.”
Where does that existential crisis that he references come from?
Pay attention...
“If not, the decarbonisation of Europe will become synonymous with its deindustrialisation, and eventually with poverty and irrelevance.”
The keyword, again, is deindustrialization.
The Belgian prime minister is saying the same thing that Marco Rubio said at Munich, and that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said at Davos.
The globalist system of free trade and green insanity is a failure, and it has gutted the industrial base of the nations that succumb to it.
Now, Rubio called it a conscious policy choice - that’s the polite version.
In 1977, the Council on Foreign Relations spelled it out in much blunter terms - they called it control disintegration.
And when you hear what they wrote, you’ll understand that everything happening in Europe right now and what was happening in the United States was the intended outcome.
The 1977 Blueprint — CFR’s “Controlled Disintegration” (07:30)
Before we get into the 1977 report itself, let’s go through a historical refresher, especially for those of you who might be new here.
After the assassination of William McKinley, the last American system president at the turn of the 20th century, the British Empire launched a project to bring the United States back into the imperial fold.
Part of that project was the founding of the CFR in 1922 as the American arm of the British Roundtable.
But despite decades of subversion, the United States maintained some semblance of economic sovereignty and industrial development until the 1970s.
That’s when the CFR launched its 1980s project, which produced a series of blueprints for destroying modern industrial society.
One of them was entitled “Alternatives to Monetary Disorder” and it let it all hang out…
When you hear the words “moderate international economic order”, translate that into the current terms of “rules-based order” and “liberal free trade system”, which the Davos and the Munich crowd are trying to save.
And the CFR knew exactly what tradition they were dismantling - they cited Alexander Hamilton by name.
Here’s how the CFR described the ideas that oppose their system.
Let that sink in...
The British Empire has always known that its mortal enemy is the American system, and back in 1977, they called for the controlled disintegration of the world economy to stop it.
Now, the mainstream will tell you this is a conspiracy theory, but here it is in black and white, and it’s what you have been living through for the last 50 years, and that is what Secretary of State Rubio called out at Munich when he said deindustrialization was a conscious decision.
It’s why we lost manufacturing in our middle and working classes, hollowing out our economy and society.
Europe is still doing it.
But the Trump administration has rejected those policies, which is why most of us voted for him.
Trump’s Counter-Attack — The American System in Action (10:30)
So what do these new policies look like in practice?
Has President Trump just cobbled together a series of ad hoc policies to try to staunch the economic bleeding?
Or do we actually have an administration that knows what the real fight is?
Look at Trade Ambassador Greer’s speech at Davos entitled, The Hamiltonian Economic System That Too Many Have Forgotten.
This is the first time since the CFR declared war on the Hamiltonian system that a high-ranking administration official has defended it.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson summarized administration policy with this statement...
Economic security is national security.
A country does not have sovereignty if we don’t have control of our critical minerals, our steel production, and our industrial base.
In other words, the end of control disintegration.
And everything this administration is doing, from tariffs to government support for critical sectors of the economy, to bringing $17 trillion in investment into the United States, is the American system in action.
Here is a remarkable example of how this works.
Yesterday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright spoke at a press conference with officials from Valor Atomics...
“One of President Trump’s boldest proclamations was that this is America - we can build things, we can innovate, we can do things in this country.
“And in fact, he set out a very bold goal, and this is just 12 months ago.
“He said, by the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, meaning July 4 of this year, we’re going to have multiple nuclear reactors critical.
“People thought that was crazy. 15 months away? We’ve built two reactors in 40 or 50 years, yet we’re going to have three reactors critical by July 4.
“Today is history.
“A multi-megawatt next-generation nuclear power plant is loaded in the C-17 behind us.
“We’re going to fly it to Utah today, and it will be critical, running all of its nuclear systems by July 4 of this year.”
This is the American system unleashed, the partnership of the federal government and private industry to get the job done.
And it’s not just industry.
This administration is going directly after the financial oligarchy, which profited from 50 years of controlled disintegration.
This week, White House advisor Peter Navarro went on national television and called Jamie Damon, the CEO of the biggest bank in America, a SOB.
“JAMIE, I’M TALKING TO YOU RIGHT NOW.
“YOU, SOB, ARE THE BIGGEST BENEFICIARY OF INTEREST RATES ON CREDIT CARDS THAT ARE UP TO 30%.
“YOU, JAMIE, THE COMPANY YOU OWN IS THE BIGGEST BENEFICIARY. SO YOU COME OUT AND ACT LIKE YOU’RE ACTING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST AND PEOPLE DON’T LOOK BEHIND THE HOOD.’
“That guy is a usurious thief that’s hurting the American people.
“He should shut up until those things come down.
“We don’t need his advice.”
What’s the issue?
The Trump administration is demanding that banks lower credit card interest rates from 20 to 30 percent to 10%.
Jamie Damon’s response, “It would be an economic disaster.”
His response is admitting that the entire consumer credit system depends on gouging you.
That’s the financial model that the CFRs’ control disintegration was designed to protect.
And now the White House is telling them it’s over.
Trump isn’t just talking about reversing deindustrialization - he’s doing it on every front: trade policy, industrial policy, massive flows of investment into critical sectors, both public and private.
This is the most comprehensive challenge to the post-1977 controlled disintegration in modern American history.
And Marco Rubio’s speech at Munich made that clear.
This administration knows that deindustrialization was a conscious policy, and now we embark on the opposite, reindustrialization and with it, a society that actually works.
The Munich conference was not just a confrontation between the Americans and the Europeans - it was a confrontation between two systems, the imperial system of deliberate control disintegration, laid out in 1977, and the American system of economic development.
Europe is still clinging to the former, although there’s some pushback from countries like Belgium.
The Trump administration has consciously chosen the American system and is inviting other nations to join in this rebirth of the fundamental values of Western civilization.
This is working.
The American system is being restored, but the architects of control disintegration aren’t going to give up.
They’re banking on the midterm elections, less than nine months away, to stop it.
Both Promethean Action and Decisive Liberty News are making sure that Americans understand the real terms of this fight, not left versus right, but sovereignty versus empire.
