US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to reassure a nervous Europe on Saturday, saying that Washington wanted to “revitalize” the transatlantic alliance so that a strong Europe could help the US on its mission of global “renewal”.
Speaking at a security conference in Munich after months of turmoil in US-European relations sparked by US President Donald Trump’s vows to seize Greenland and his often derisive remarks about Washington’s allies, Washington’s top diplomat struck a markedly soothing tone.
“We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilisation in human history,” Rubio said. “What we want is a reinvigorated alliance.”
“We want Europe to be strong,” Rubio said, adding that the continent and the US “belong together”.
🇺🇸🇪🇺 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a speech at the Munich Security Conference calling for a reinvigorated alliance of "Western civilisation".
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The United States will be “driven by a vision of a future as proud, as sovereign, and as vital as our civilization’s past”, he said.
“It is our hope to do this together with you, our friends here in Europe,” he said.
He echoed Trump administration’s oft-stated assertion that immigration was a threat, saying that “mass migration” was “a crisis which is transforming and destabilizing societies all across the West”.
“We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization and together with us are willing and able to defend it.”
Rubio to Europeans:
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“Acting together in this way, we will not just help recover a sane foreign policy… It will restore to us a clear sense of ourselves. It will restore a place in the world, and in so doing, it will rebuke and deter the forces of civilizational erasure that today menace both America and Europe alike.”
Source: Agencies