US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks throughout the 62nd Munich Safety Convention (MSC) on February 14, 2026 in Munich, southern Germany. (Photograph by Alexandra BEIER / POOL / AFP through Getty Pictures)
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The U.S. has no intention of abandoning its deep alliance with Europe and needs the area to succeed, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on Saturday.
“We care deeply about your future and ours,” Rubio instructed the Munich Safety Convention.
“We would like Europe to be sturdy. We consider that Europe should survive, as a result of the 2 nice wars of the final century serve, for us, as historical past’s nice reminder, that in the end, our future is, and can at all times be, intertwined with yours.”
U.S. President Donald Trump has ceaselessly criticized Europe for being too reliant on the U.S. for its safety and has pushed NATO allies to spice up protection spending.
“We don’t have to abandon the system of worldwide cooperation we authored, and we needn’t dismantle the worldwide establishments of the outdated order that collectively we constructed. However these should be reformed. These should be rebuilt,” Rubio stated.
The U.S.’s prime diplomat instructed the gathering of European leaders that American management has succeeded in resolving thorny points such because the Israel-Gaza battle and made progress in ending Russia’s struggle with Ukraine which multilateral organizations together with the U.N. have up to now didn’t.
“The United Nations nonetheless has super potential to be a software for good on this planet, however we can’t ignore that right now, on probably the most urgent issues earlier than us, it has no solutions and has performed just about no position. It couldn’t resolve the struggle in Gaza,” Rubio stated. “As a substitute, it was American management that freed captives from barbarians and caused a fragile truce. It has not solved the struggle in Ukraine.
Rubio stated the U.S. sought a “reinvigorated alliance” with Europe, “one that doesn’t keep the well mannered pretense that our lifestyle is only one amongst many and that asks for permission earlier than it acts.”
Financial cooperation
In a wide-ranging speech, Rubio criticized previous insurance policies that inspired mass migration, outsourced provide chains and contributed to “deindustrialization”, which he stated was “not inevitable”.
“It was a acutely aware coverage selection, a decades-long financial endeavor that stripped our nations of their wealth, of their productive capability, and of their independence. And the lack of our provide chain sovereignty was not a perform of a affluent and wholesome system of worldwide commerce. It was silly,” Rubio stated.
Rubio additionally mentioned how larger trans-Atlantic cooperation may reposition the West to guide in Twenty first-Century industries.
“Collectively, we will reindustrialize our economies and rebuild our capability to defend our folks,” he stated.
“Business area journey and cutting-edge synthetic intelligence, industrial automation and flex manufacturing, making a Western provide chain for essential minerals not susceptible to extortion from different powers, and a unified effort to compete for market share within the economies of the worldwide South.”
