# National Power Requires Dominance Across Technology and Industry by Marco Rubio > “Under President Trump, the United States has made its choice. We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power: to take back control of our critical supply chains, reindustrialize our economy, rebuild our defense, and fight for dominance of the technologies and industries of the future. We choose to reach for new frontiers in advanced manufacturing and superintelligence; in drones, weapons, and warfare; in chips, minerals, cyber, and every other domain of human possibility; [and] to unleash our energy, rebuild our factories, return our astronauts to the Moon, and launch a new age of exploration in space.” > **— Marco Rubio**, *Remarks at the Pnyx, Athens, October 7, 2026, 14:21–14:56* ## Sources and Context - **Primary recording:** [U.S. Department of State recording, 14:21–14:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOv1DpML7I4&t=861s), October 7, 2026. - **Official transcript:** [U.S. Department of State — Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks](https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesman/2026/10/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-remarks), October 7, 2026. The State Department page returned a technical-difficulties notice during the source-research pass; the audiovisual recording remains the controlling primary source. - **Prepared source record:** [[research/Secretary Rubio Delivers Remarks from the Acropolis in Athens|Secretary Rubio Delivers Remarks from the Acropolis in Athens]] preserves the complete spoken transcript, the attendance record, the source architecture, and this statement's position in the full address. - **Editorial record:** The bracketed conjunction ‘[and]’ connects the final infinitive in the same source list after spoken repetition was removed. The complete uncompressed delivery remains available in the prepared source record for direct comparison. - **Context:** This is the speech's clearest statement of neo-Westernism as an operating program. Ancient ambition is translated into supply chains, industrial capacity, energy, military strength, superintelligence, manufacturing, and space exploration. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Neo-Westernism|Neo-Westernism]] - [[wiki/Marco Rubio|Marco Rubio]] - [[wiki/National Power|National Power]] - [[wiki/AI Industrial Base|AI Industrial Base]] - [[wiki/Manufacturing Sovereignty|Manufacturing Sovereignty]] - [[wiki/Space Exploration|Space Exploration]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Under President Trump, the United States has made its choice. We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power: to take back control of our critical supply chains, reindustrialize our economy, rebuild our defense, and fight for dominance of the technologies and industries of the future. We choose to reach for new frontiers in advanced manufacturing and superintelligence; in drones, weapons, and warfare; in chips, minerals, cyber, and every other domain of human possibility; [and] to unleash our energy, rebuild our factories, return our astronauts to the Moon, and launch a new age of exploration in space.” — Marco Rubio, Remarks at the Pnyx, Athens, October 7, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-marco-rubio-national-power-technology-industry ```