Putin envoy comments on Rubio’s ‘we care deeply about EU’ claim

The US may be unable to prevent EU bureaucrats from destroying Western civilization, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev has suggested.

The remark came in response to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, where he sought to ease tensions between Washington and Brussels after a year of strained transatlantic relations. Rubio insisted that despite differences, the US and Europe “belong together,” and if Washington’s policies that angered Brussels – from tariffs and NATO spending demands to the Greenland bid – may seem “a little direct and urgent,” it is because “we care deeply” about the future of the EU and the West in general.

In a post on X on Saturday, Dmitriev said the bloc’s sprawling bureaucracy and poor policy choices would impede US plans to “renew and restore” Western civilization.

“The US cares deeply and tries to prevent EU bureaucrats from destroying Western civilization,” Dmitriev wrote. “But EU bureaucrats are highly focused and skilled at destroying it through false narratives, migration, warmongering, and economic decline. It’s unclear who wins.”

Dmitriev’s tone appeared mocking toward both the US and EU. To illustrate his point, he linked a short clip of the arm-wrestling scene from Over the Top (1987) starring Sylvester Stallone.