strategy was shockingly normal. and i think it is. here s what s changed and worrisome it s the rise of great power politics. we re seeing china increasingly assertive in the south china sea, a russia that intrudes in our elections and is unafraid to pull levers of power around the democratic world. that s very worrisome. again, back to 100 years ago we saw this mix of great powers and now we add this sense of nuclear weapons on top of it. i had a general tell me that a couple days ago, the end of history, it s actually it started again with great power politics. exactly. and the good news from a trump administration perspective is that they realize this, they re talking about it seriously. the bad news is we re not exerting leadership and that s what the munich security conference felt as a mariner. what are we exerting?
police officers last year. the 20th century was a grade yard with china probably the biggest mass cull her of innocence, russia and germany not far behind. when the berlin wall came down, there was a fleeting hope that we reached the end of history and the on going expansion of lit see would bring about a peaceful 21st century, full of technological marvels and a rising economic prosperity across the globe. instead we had 9/11, an eruption of ancient hait reds, the new technology has amplified extremists, often monetized them and made the world a more perilous and unpredictable place. now the most radical regime, north korea, has nuclear weapons and missiles and iran seems poised to be in the same place in a short period of time. there s really only one solution, lincoln s solution, one articulated in his second inaugural address, an attitude of malice towards none and charity towards all. perhaps we can all add that to
we re in h? obviously the protest in charlottesville, virginia began with the decision of that city to take down a statue of robert lee. in charlottesville, the city council or whatever voted and decided to move the statue to a different park. that s local government. that is their decision. this is citizens being icon know class tick. when do they go after when is robert lee not enough? when do they go after thomas jefferson? that s the question i have. i think we re at a very scary spot. when i was a kid, i believed, i think naively. i didn t think we were at the end of history but i felt race relations why going to get progressively better the farther away we got from slavery and jim crow that people would become
interest to do so, because the world is increasingly marked by instability and threats that risk undermining our way of life, and the very things that we hold dear. the end of the cold war did not give rise to a new world order. it did not herald the end of history. it did not lead to a new age of peace, prosperity and predict ability in world affairs. for some, the citizens of central and eastern europe in particular, it brought new freedom. but across the world, ancient ethnic religious and national rivalries, rivalries that had been frozen through the decades of the cold war returned. new enemies of the west and our values, in particular in the form of radical islamists, have emerged. [ applause ] and countries with little tradition of democracy, liberty and human rights, notably china
because the world is increasingly marked by instability and threats that risk undermining our way of life and the very things that we hold dear. the end of the cold war did not give rise to a new world order. it did not herald the end of history. i did not lead to new age of peace and prosperity in world affairs. for some, it brought new freedom. but across the world, ancient rivalries, rivalries that have been frozen returned. new enemies of the west and our values, in particular in the form of radical islamists have emerged and countries with little tradition of democracy, liberty and human rights notably china and russia, have grown