"Rubio, who heads the U.S. delegation traveling to Germany, is widely seen as the "good cop" in the Trump administration's ever-widening conflict with Europe over defense spending, Greenland, internet censorship and immigration policy. Unlike Vice President JD Vance, who stunned the conference last year with his accusations of Europe's civilizational demise, Rubio is expected to focus on more familiar criticisms related to the continent's overreliance on U.S. military support."
"Ocasio-Cortez, meanwhile, is expected to decry the influence of billionaires and corporate interests on international policies she views as hostile to the working class. "She brings an understanding of the way that oligarchy and corruption are part of the problem in our foreign policy and have been for a long time," said Matt Duss, an informal adviser to the congresswoman and executive vice president of the Center for International Policy."
Marco Rubio and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will present opposing approaches to U.S. global leadership at the Munich Security Conference. Rubio leads the U.S. delegation and is positioned as a pragmatic critic of Europe’s defense and security posture, emphasizing European reliance on U.S. military support and familiar transatlantic grievances. Ocasio-Cortez is set to condemn billionaire and corporate influence on international policy and to foreground working-class concerns, with advisers highlighting oligarchy and corruption as persistent foreign-policy problems. The conference, attended by roughly 50 global leaders, is associated with promoting a Western rules-based order now questioned across the political spectrum.
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