Rubio: «US youngsters of Europe, however we won’t helplessly watch the decline of the West» | EUROtoday

The decline of the West

Rubio, furthermore, has not stopped warning that Western civilization and particularly Europe threat decline, attributable to migration and deindustrialization and the power transition. “We don’t want our allies to be weak, because that makes us weaker,” he mentioned. “In America we have no interest in being polite and orderly guardians of the decline managed by the West, we do not seek to separate but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history.”

And on Greenland, on the heart of an unprecedented disaster between the US and the European Union, the Danish Prime Minister, Matte Frederiksen, warned that “Trump still wants the island and is trying to set a price to get it”. Another German protection minister, Boris Pistorius, reiterated that “questioning the sovereignty of a NATO country and excluding us from negotiations that are crucial for the security of the continent damages our alliance and strengthens our adversaries”

The European nuclear deterrent

Meanwhile, Germany and France are engaged on some pan-European nuclear deterrence system, to cut back dependence on this space too on an ally that has confirmed in observe to now not be as dependable because it as soon as was. Merz and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, relaunched the venture in Monaco. However, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is eager to level out: it’s good to debate, however solely as an integration to the US nuclear umbrella. The essential basis of freedom in Europe stays the safety offered by the United States, underlined Rutte who has repeatedly prior to now confronted the continent with its personal limits on protection and safety.

The Ukrainian disaster

Zelensky, in flip acclaimed with a standing ovation, said that «there isn’t a nation in Europe that may solely rely by itself know-how and its personal cash to defend itself. This is why Russia invests within the breakdown of our Euro-Atlantic group, as a result of it’s this unity that protects us.” Talks with Russia and the United States will resume next week in Geneva. Zelensky expressed hope for concrete results, but stressed that “too usually” Kyiv is requested for concessions with out negotiating.