Tea at Trianon: Rubio Gives Warning About Future Of Western Civilization

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, December 27, 2025

Rubio Gives Warning About Future Of Western Civilization

From The Patriotic Voice:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a message to Europe that needed to be said. Keep erasing your culture, and you’ll have nothing left worth defending.

“If you erase your shared history, your shared culture, your shared ideology, your shared priorities, your shared principles, then what — then you just have a straight-up defense agreement. That’s all you have.”
The European response? Germany’s chancellor called it “unacceptable.” The EU’s unelected leader demanded America stop “interfering” in European democracy. Translation: Stop noticing what we’re doing to ourselves.

The White House’s National Security Strategy memo didn’t mince words. Europe faces “civilizational erasure” if it continues globalist policies of mass migration and attacks on fundamental liberties like freedom of speech. That’s not diplomatic language. That’s a warning from an ally watching a slow-motion suicide. (Read more.)