# Rubio calls violent far-left terror a global ‘blind spot,’ gathers allies

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/rubio-calls-violent-far-left-terror-a-global-blind-spot-gathers-allies/
- Published: 2026-07-16T12:44:55+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-27T00:14:51+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Far right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-calls-violent-far-left-terror-global-blind-spot-gathers-allies
- Topics: Europe, World

## Key points

- Rubio calls far-left political violence a neglected global threat
- Around 65 countries attended his Washington counterterrorism summit
- He says such extremism is "poisonous" and disguised as equality

## Summary

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a Washington summit of around 65 foreign delegations that violent far-left political terrorism has become a global "blind spot" that can no longer be ignored. He argued that governments, including the United States, have for too long excused or downplayed a resurgence of transnational far-left extremist violence, and said the Trump administration intends to make tackling it a formal counterterrorism priority.

Speaking at the opening of the State Department-hosted summit on Thursday, Rubio described the ideology behind such violence as "poisonous" and warned that it is often "masked as equality" to avoid scrutiny. More than 60 countries sent representatives to the gathering, which Rubio is using to build international consensus and coordination on countering far-left extremist networks, mirroring the kind of multilateral cooperation traditionally applied to other forms of terrorism.

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