Marco Rubio: Under President Trump, for the first time, we are building infrastructure to defeat far-left terror

“It is easy to destroy great things. It is far more difficult to make them. The enemies of civilisation are only capable of the former. They’re only capable of destroying great things,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared during his address at the ministerial summit on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism.

Rubio highlighted that Donald Trump has signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum outlining a comprehensive strategy to investigate and disrupt Antifa terror networks and their allies.

“Under President Trump, for the first time, the United States is building the infrastructure, the partnership, and the strategy to defeat the scourge of far-left terror. The president signed National Security Presidential Memorandum Number Seven, outlining a comprehensive strategy to investigate and disrupt Antifa terror networks and their allies.

Last November, the State Department designated four violent far-left extremist groups as foreign terrorist organisations, and there will be more designations soon. In December, we announced Rewards for Justice, offering up to ten million US dollars for information disrupting the financing behind these groups.

In May, we convened the first Counterterrorism Law Enforcement Workshop, joining American law enforcement officials and their counterparts in our partner countries to map and develop strategies for dismantling these networks together. The next workshop will be co-hosted with our partners in Germany.

The coalition we are building together is already bearing fruit, and we are here today to build on that work. We can, and we must identify and map this threat and rebuild our counterterrorism architecture to defeat it, just as we have done together before. Now we must do it together again. Through intelligence and information sharing, through coordinated law enforcement strategy, through financial targeting and disruption, we will dismantle these networks brick by brick.

It is time for the people of the civilised world to defend ourselves, to stand united against this encroaching darkness and fight, fight for what is ours. It is easy to destroy great things. It is far more difficult to make them. The enemies of civilisation are only capable of the former. They are only capable of destroying great things. All they know is destruction. But we have built great things together. We have done it time and again. We know what we must do, and now we must do it,” Rubio stated.

The ministerial summit on “The Resurgence of Political Terrorism” is currently underway in Washington, where Maka Botchorishvili, Georgia’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, is also participating and scheduled to address the attendees.