The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, proposed this Saturday to the European powers that they subscribe to the nationalist understanding of the world championed by President Donald Trump and abandon once and for all the “deception” that liberal democracies, the international order based on rules and the policies that have entailed, have represented for decades, to make way for a “revitalized” transatlantic alliance.
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the bloc policy, commented Rubio – one of the star guests at the International Security Conference being held this weekend in the German city of Munich – led to the appearance of this “absurd idea” that has led to the adoption of “a dogmatic vision of free and unrestricted trade” and the appeasement of “a climate cult” that has only led to the “impoverishment of society.”
“We want Europe to be strong”
“And in the search for a world without borders, we opened our doors to an unprecedented wave of mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture and the future of our people. We made these mistakes together. And now, together, we owe it to our people to face these facts and move forward,” lamented the Secretary of State.
“We want Europe to be strong. We believe that Europe must survive, because the two great wars of the last century served as a constant reminder from history that, ultimately, our destiny is and always will be intertwined with yours,” he asserted.
A new structure
Without abandoning the current structure of relations, Rubio has called for a comprehensive reform of international institutions, starting with the United Nations (an organization with “potential”, according to Rubio, but which “has no answers and right now practically plays no role”), marked by the fundamental fact that the particular interest of the states must enjoy absolute priority.
“We can no longer put the so-called global order before the vital interests of our people,” the Secretary of State declared in the same forum in which, a year ago, the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, advanced in an explosive speech the position of the Administration and his regret for what he described as a defeat of historical European values.
Without reaching the extremes of Vance and with a more conciliatory attitude, Rubio has once again peppered his speech with terms such as “national culture”, “heritage”, “Christian values” or “decline of Western civilization”, hence his proposal of an “alliance based on the recognition that the West has inherited something common, distinctive and irreplaceable, because, after all, this is the very foundation of the transatlantic link.”
Unlike Vance, Rubio has indicated that the United States is the product of European history. “We are children of Europe,” the Secretary of State indicated in a historical review of the influence of Europe in the construction of the country, the foundation of this new alliance, with mention included of Spain as the birthplace “of his country’s romance” with the archetype of the cowboy that became synonymous with the American West.
“We want allies who are proud of their culture and heritage, who understand that we are heirs of the same great and noble civilization and who, together with us, are willing and able to defend it,” proclaimed the Secretary of State.
“By acting together in this way, we will not only contribute to recovering a sensible foreign policy, but it will also give us back a clear identity,” Rubio proposed, “and recover our place in the world, to deter the forces of civilizational destruction that threaten us today.”
“We have to be proud of what we achieved together in the last century, but now we must face and take advantage of the opportunities of a new century. Because yesterday has passed. The future is inevitable. And our destiny, together, awaits us,” concluded the Secretary of State.
