In this Promethean Monday Night strategic overview (Feb. 16), host Mike Steger discusses the Munich Security Conference and argues that Marco Rubio delivered a profound, “revolutionary” speech aimed at telling Europe the U.S. is not abandoning it while insisting that intentional policies - especially deindustrialization - were designed by transatlantic elite institutions rather than arising from “inevitable” market forces.
Steger contrasts a liberal worldview of aggregate individual desires with the necessity of coherent intent and leadership, linking alleged planned deindustrialization to organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Atlantic Council, Davos, and similar gatherings, and tracing the history through Lyndon LaRouche’s warnings, the CFR’s 1977 “controlled disintegration” argument (Hirsch), and Paul Volcker’s high-interest-rate policy that he says choked investment in industry and nuclear power.
He frames Trump as a decisive leader changing civilizational course, describes Rubio and other administration figures as emphasizing that Trump makes key decisions, and situates the moment in a broader post–World War II “revolution” centered on three themes:
the nation-state as a new organizing principle
major scientific discoveries with underused potential (nuclear power, fusion, space exploration, infrastructure), and
The unique creative value of the individual and family against recurring overpopulation/climate narratives
Steger concludes that a revived American system and a clear civilizational vision are necessary to recruit Americans and spark a renaissance-like transformation, countering globalism with a renewed mission of development, technology, and empowered citizenship.
Chapters
00:00 Welcome + What Tonight’s Strategic Overview Covers
00:24 Munich Security Conference: Rubio’s Speech and the Message to Europe
01:45 The Liberal ‘Invisible Hand’ Myth vs. Intentional Policy
03:57 Who Made the Deindustrialization Decisions? The Transatlantic Elite Network
06:57 LaRouche’s Warning and the 1970s ‘Controlled Disintegration’ Playbook
10:06 Leadership, Intent, and Trump’s Course-Correction Doctrine
13:19 Zooming Out: The Post–WWII Revolution People Missed
17:35 Pillar #1 — The Nation-State Idea and the Explosion of New Nations
21:02 Pillar #2 — Science & Infrastructure: Nuclear, Space, and Big Water Projects
26:05 Pillar #3 — Population Panic, Climate Narratives, and the Value of the Individual
36:00 What This Revolution Could Unleash: A New Renaissance-Scale Epoch
37:26 Closing: Recruiting Americans with a Civilizational Vision
42:59 Final Thoughts and Sign-Off
