Marco Rubio

But let's see what happens.

I hope it works out.

We all hope it works out.

The United States' interest is to see the war end, and we want to do what we can to make it end.

We're the only nation on Earth that apparently can get both sides to the table to talk.

We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world.

You know, when this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation, actually it was on a continent, that was divided against itself.

The line between communism and freedom

ran through the heart of Germany.

The first barbed fences of the Berlin Wall had gone up just two years prior.

And just months before that first conference, before our predecessors first met here, here in Munich, the Cuban Missile Crisis had brought the world to the brink of nuclear destruction.

Even as World War II still burned fresh in the memory of Americans and Europeans alike,

we found ourselves staring down the barrel of a new global catastrophe, one with the potential for a new kind of destruction more apocalyptic and final than anything before in the history of mankind.

The time of that first gathering, Soviet communism was on the march.

Thousands of years of Western civilization hung in the balance.

At that time, victory was far from certain.

But we were driven by a common purpose.

We were unified not just by what we were fighting against.

We were unified by what we were fighting for.

And together, Europe and America prevailed.