Rubio Hosts International Conference on the Growing Threat of Left-Wing Terrorism, “Threatens the Civilized World”

Rubio Hosts Conference on Left-Wing Terrorism

Marco Rubio is putting the world on notice.

The secretary of state tells dozens of foreign governments that violent far-left political terrorism is becoming a growing international threat, even warning that communist ideology envisions a world without God.

Rubio says extremist groups are coordinating across borders through financing, communications, and recruitment—and the Trump administration plans to expand terrorist designations while urging allies to work together to dismantle the networks.

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Today, @StateDept is imposing new visa restrictions to bar Far-Left Terrorists from entering our country.

Foreigners who finance, incite, or aid and abet Far-Left Terrorists are enemies of our civilization. They are not welcome in the United States.https://t.co/Xnc1dqMAHd

— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) July 16, 2026

Just after JD Vance embarrassed himself and the administration for the 100th time.

Rubio drops one of the best speeches he’s ever done. pic.twitter.com/PnruLifkhw

— Kosher (@koshercockney) July 16, 2026

Officials from more than 60 nations attended the D.C. event. The Secretary of State explains the threat: This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best; of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, cannot create, cannot achieve great things – and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time – anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, communist, anarchist, Marxist – but the fundamental character is always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality, justice, liberation; an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and right, on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness, and have nothing else to offer the world…. It is time for the peoples of the civilized world to defend ourselves – to stand united against this encroaching darkness and fight for what is ours (State Department).

Sec. Marco Rubio just NAILED IT:

“One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism is that it ‘sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice.’”

“That’s actually NOT TRUE. Communism does NOT sound good in theory. The world that envisions for all of us is small,… pic.twitter.com/iKnXenuutq

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 16, 2026