The US is reshaping the world, while the EU applauds and tries to keep the old system on life support
If this year’s Munich Security Conference proved one thing, it’s that nobody involved has done any reflection on the lessons of last year. The Americans continued to berate their European ‘allies’, while the Europeans resorted to comic-book catchphrases to defend a dying world order.
Running from Friday through Sunday, this year’s conference was always going to center on the widening gulf between the US and EU. Conference Foundation President Wolfgang Ischinger spelled this out in a report published before the summit, accusing US President Donald Trump of taking a “wrecking ball” to the post-WWII liberal order. As such, he wrote, “the United States’ evolving view of the international order” would be the focus of almost every discussion in Munich.
Rubio doubles down
“We in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared in his keynote speech on Saturday. Over the next 20 minutes, Rubio laid out a vision of the US and EU uniting to rebuild the empires of old, unconstrained by climate policy, “anti-colonial” sentiment, and “mass migration that threatens the cohesion of our societies.”
“We are heirs to the same great and noble civilization,” he told the Europeans, calling on them to join the US in seizing critical mineral supply chains, dominating markets in the Global South, and foregoing UN resolutions for direct intervention around the world.
European leaders, who spent the year leading up to the conference condemning the US aggressively self-interested foreign policy, now applauded as Rubio reminded them that it was the US – and not the UN – that bombed Iran and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The US does not want an alliance “paralyzed into inaction by fear – fear of climate change, fear of war, fear of technology,” he told them. “We want an alliance…that does not allow its power to be outsourced, constrained, or subordinated.”
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