Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters while boarding his plane for the Munich Security Conference that the “old world is gone.”
“The world is changing very fast right in front of us,” he said. “The old world is gone – frankly, the world that I grew up in – and 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. And it’s – we’ve had many of these conversations in private with many of our allies, and they are our allies, and we need to continue to have those conversations.”
Discussing the nation’s policy position towards Europe, Rubio stated that “Europe’s important to us.”
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“We’re very tightly linked to Europe,” he explained. “I think most people in this country can trace both their cultural or their personal heritage back to Europe, so we’re deeply tied to Europe and our future. So we’ve just got to talk about what that future looks like.”
The White House’s national security strategy voiced concern over what is “civilizational erasure” in Europe.
“The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence,” the strategy explains, noting that if the current pattern continues, the “continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less.”
Last year, Vice President JD Vance appeared at the Munich Security Conference, criticizing Europe for backing away from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.”
This article originally appeared on American Faith and is reposted with permission.
