Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned that Europe risks destroying the “shared culture” of the West and in turn weaken bonds with the United States. At a press briefing from the Department of State in Washington DC on Friday, Secretary of State Rubio doubled down on the assertions made in the White House’s National Security Strategy memo, which declared that Europe faces “civilizational erasure” if it continues globalist policies of mass migration and attacks on fundamental liberties such as freedom of speech.
Mr Rubio said that the Untied States was founded on “Western values” such the principles of liberty, individualism, and self-governance, and noted that “many of these ideas that led to the founding of our country found their genesis in some of these places in the Western alliance.” However, the Secretary said that the Trump administration is “concerned that, particularly in parts of Western Europe, those things that underpin our alliance and our tie to them could be under threat in the long term.”
