NEW – Rubio says Europe and U.S. belong together bound by "centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry" and that since WW2 mistakes have been made: outsourcing "our sovereignty to international institutions," imposing energy policies that… pic.twitter.com/O5jbOcy9i4
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There was a whole lot of “blood and soil” bullshit in that speech that most people are just glossing over. Not Tom mention the fact that, mlike Trump, he is determined to kill massive numbers of people by ignoring climate change. (Of course he already did that with the destruction of USAID, which he gleefully carried out at Elon’s direction.)
I thought this analysis was spot on:
A change of tone. Rubio brought a lot of white paint to Munich to cover the cracks caused by the great rupture. From the Beatles and Michelangelo to German beer and the common victory in the Cold War, he invoked all the symbols of culture that are meant to unite us into a single Western civilisation. Europe and the US are connected. That much was clear.
But what about the values that once held the transatlantic community together? According to Marco Rubio, international law is no longer working. That was supposed to be holding us together. Other fundamental principles – like democracy or true freedom of speech were simply not mentioned.
So is it now clear that this is all about interests, not common values. And do we actually have common interests? I am not sure that Europeans see the announced civilisational decline, supposedly caused mainly by migration and deindustrialisation, as a core uniting interest. For most Europeans, the common interest is security. And according to the Secretary, Europe has to defend itself on its own, otherwise NATO looks weak.
This was not a departure from the general position of the US administration. It was simply delivered in more polite terms. I am not sure the white paint will hold.
There’s also the fact that any country that would elect Donald Trump a second time after everything he did the first time simply cannot be trusted. Something is so haywire in American society that it’s terrifying that we have the money and military might that we have. The rest of the world would be idiotic not to look elsewhere for security.
I mean, come on…