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Munich security conference live: Rubio criticises
mass migration, west’s postwar ‘delusion’, US and Europe’s mistakes
US secretary of state warns against idea that
everyone is ‘a citizen of the world’
18m ago
09.41 CET
Rubio
love bombs Europe in style, while issuing stark warnings on substance, and it
worked - snap analysis
Jakub
Krupa
Jakub
Krupa
in Munich
You could
hear that sigh of relief across the continent.
That was
a very different speech to JD Vance’s last year in style, if not necessarily
always substance.
Rubio
repeatedly made clear his personal and the US’s admiration of Europe, and
framing all concerns – or disagreements and frustrations – in this context. The
line of that the US will always be a child of Europe was a particularly nice
touch.
It’s a
clever figure of speech, which JD Vance also partially tried to do last year
(at times), but failed with his much more confrontational, almost accusatory
tone.
Rubio
chose to do it completely differently – with clever references to shared
history, and both European and specifically German links with the US – and
clearly succeeded, sweet talking the room into giving him a big applause and a
partial standing ovation at the end.
You
surely know that famous quote that “a diplomat is a person who can tell you to
go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.”
Well,
he’s their chief diplomat after all.
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