“他们希望美国从整个世界退出，这样我们就可以进入一个威权主义的时代，威权主义者可以瓜分世界，唐纳德·特朗普可以指挥西半球和拉丁美洲，将其作为他的个人沙盒，普京可以在欧洲四处炫耀，试图在我们自己的盟友周围耀武扬威，基本上威权主义者可以拥有自己的地理区域，”她说。
2026年1月22日，来自纽约州的民主党众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯(右)在DC华盛顿州的国会山支持蔑视法。《蔑视法》是一项拟议中的美国法律，该法律将允许个人起诉任何未经其许可创建或分享人工智能生成的虚假、露骨的色情图像或视频的人。(Alex WROBLEWSKI /法新社通过Getty Images拍摄)亚历克斯·乌鲁布莱夫斯基/法新社
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯是以色列在加沙行动的进步批评者，他呼吁美国、欧洲及其盟友保持对全球联盟的承诺，同时远离“伪善”。 “在西方，我们经常为不便的人群寻找其他方式来表现这些悖论，无论是绑架外国元首，还是威胁我们的盟友殖民格陵兰，无论是在种族灭绝中寻找其他方式。伪善是脆弱的，它们威胁着全球的民主。”
率领特朗普政府代表团前往慕尼黑的美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥(John Kerry)称，此次峰会是“一次重要的会议”，其他代表团“想要诚实”，“想知道我们要去哪里，我们想和他们一起去哪里。”
“我们生活在一个地缘政治的新时代，这需要我们所有人重新审视这个时代是什么样子，我们的角色将是什么，”他说。
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯提出了类似的观点，承认二战后秩序的下一章。
她说:“有许多领导人说我们会回去，我认为我们必须认识到，我们正处于新的一天，我们正处于一个新的时代。”。“但这并不意味着大多数美国人准备放弃基于规则的秩序，也不意味着我们准备放弃我们对民主的承诺。”
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯无法回避触及潜在白宫运行的问题。
“那么当你竞选总统时，你打算征收财富税还是亿万富翁税?”主持小组讨论的《纽约时报》记者问她。
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯笑着说:“我不认为我们必须等待任何一位总统来征收财富税，我认为这需要尽快完成。”
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“在西方，我们经常为不便的人群寻找其他方式来表现这些悖论，无论是绑架外国元首，还是威胁我们的盟友殖民格陵兰，无论是在种族灭绝中寻找其他方式。伪善是脆弱的，它们威胁着全球的民主。”
率领特朗普政府代表团前往慕尼黑的美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥(John Kerry)称，此次峰会是“一次重要的会议”，其他代表团“想要诚实”，“想知道我们要去哪里，我们想和他们一起去哪里。”
Gov. Newsom to world leaders: 'Donald Trump is temporary'
California Gov. Gavin Newsom called on world leaders attending the Munich Security Conference in Germany to think about a future without President Donald Trump.
Newsom's comments on climate policy reflected the larger theme of his message for Europe.
"I hope if there is nothing else I communicate today: Donald Trump is temporary. He'll be gone in three years," Newsom said.
Of Trump, Newsom encouraged leaders to "call this guy out" and stand up to the administration's actions on the climate and beyond.
"I'm under assault and attack by this guy every single day. Here's the president of the United States, he's 80 years old and he's calling me a nickname an 8-year-old called me," Newsom said.
The California governor and potential 2028 presidential candidate was one of several potential White House hopefuls in Munich for the annual summit.
Lawmakers, aides and analysts told ABC News they planned to push an alternative to Trump's aggressive and transactional foreign policy agenda.
In a post on X, Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, previewed his visit, writing: "I'm headed to the Munich Security Conference this weekend to talk about rebuilding alliances and restoring steady American leadership. To meet the threat of China, the world needs a partner it can count on again, not chaos."
At last year's gathering, Vice President JD Vancecriticized European allies, accusing them of censoring right-wing political parties and not doing more to stop illegal migration.
Since then, Trump's on-again, off-againtariffs, repeatedthreats to seize Greenlandand calls for NATO allies to spend more on security have forced longtime U.S. allies to question American commitments.
Trump has also more readily deployed the U.S. military abroad in his second term,striking three Iranian nuclear siteslast June, and attacking Venezuela tocapture its leader, Nicolas Maduro, in January.
"We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn't mourn it," Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a speech in Davos, Switzerland, last month. "Middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu."
12 February 2026, Bavaria, Munich: The emblem of the security conference and the inscription "Munich Security Conference" can be seen on a flag on the facade of the Bayerischer Hof in Munich (Bavaria, Germany) on February 12, 2026. The 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) will take place from February 13 to 15, 2026 at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich. The MSC is the world's leading forum for debates on international security policy. Photo: Matthias B...Show more
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Democrats will have to reaffirm their support for strong transatlantic ties while navigating European skepticism after Trump's 2024 victory, Damian Murphy, a former Democratic foreign policy staffer and senior vice president of National Security at the Center for American Progress, told ABC News.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., urged democracies to embrace a "working class-centered politics" to "stave off the scourges of authoritarianism.”
"They are looking to withdraw the U.S. from the entire world so that we can turn into an age of authoritarianism, authoritariansthat can carve up the world where Donald Trump can command the western hemisphereand LatinAmerica as his personal sandbox, where Putincan saber rattle around Europe and try to bully around our own allies there, and for essentially authoritarians to have their own geographic domains," she said.
A progressive critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza, Ocasio-Cortez called for the United States, Europe and its allies to maintain their commitments to global alliances while stepping away from “hypocrisies.”
"Too often in the West, we look the other way for inconvenient populations to act out these paradoxes, whether it is kidnapping a foreign head of state, or threatening our allies to colonize Greenland, whether it is looking the other way in a genocide. Hypocrisies are vulnerabilities and they threaten democracies globally."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is leading the Trump administration's delegation to Munich, called the summit "an important conference" and that other delegations "want honesty" and "want to know where we're going, where we'd like to go with them."
"We live in a new era in geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to sort of reexamine what that looks like and what our role is going to be," he said.
Ocasio-Cortez made a similar point, acknowledging the next chapter of the post-World War II order.
"There have been many leaders who have said we will go back, and I think we have to recognize that we are in a new day and we are in a new time," she said. "But that does not mean that the majority of Americans are ready to walk away from a rules-based order, and that we are ready to walk away from our commitment to democracy."
Ocasio-Cortez couldn’t avoid questions that touched on a potential White House run.
"So when you run for president, are you going to impose a wealth tax or a billionaire's tax?" the New York Times reporter moderating the panel asked her.
"I don't think we have to wait for any one president to impose a wealth tax, I think that it needs to be done expeditiously," Ocasio-Cortez said with a laugh.
