An offer of friendship – but on white, Christian, Maga terms

Marco Rubio’s soothing tone in Munich masked a familiar message: Europe can remain America’s ally – but at a cost • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here “The greatness of America,” wrote the 19th-century French diplomat, political philosopher and historian Alexis de Tocqueville, “lies not in her being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.” For a brief moment at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) last weekend, European leaders half-thought that their most heartfelt wish – the return of the old US, that believed in the EU ideal and backed a rules-based world order – had been granted. Continue reading...

By Jon Henley Europe correspondent

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