{"id":177897,"date":"2026-02-14T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177897\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T12:08:07","slug":"rubio-expresses-desire-to-maintain-trans-atlantic-relations-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/177897\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio expresses desire to maintain trans-Atlantic relations \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a friendly and reassuring assessment of America\u2019s relations with Europe under President Donald Trump\u2019s administration<\/a>, saying Saturday that the blunt tone of previous criticisms was intended to spur a renaissance in trans-Atlantic ties.<\/p>\n

Rubio addressed the Munich Security Conference a year after Vice President JD Vance stunned the same audience with a harsh critique of European<\/a> values.<\/p>\n

On Friday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz opened this year’s gathering by calling for the United States<\/a> and Europe to \u201crepair and revive trans-Atlantic trust together,\u201d saying that even the U.S. isn\u2019t powerful enough to go it alone in an world whose old order has withered.<\/p>\n

Rubio argued that the \u201ceuphoria\u201d of the Western victory in the Cold War led to a “dangerous delusion that we had entered \u2018the end of history,\u2019 that every nation would now be a liberal democracy, that the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood … and that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world.\u201d <\/p>\n

Taking a much less confrontational approach than Vance last year, he acknowledged that the Trump administration has been pointedly direct in asserting its positions, but made clear that it won’t back off them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe made these mistakes together and now together we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward to rebuild,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder President Trump, the United States of America will once again take on the task of renewal and restoration,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is why we Americans may sometimes come off as a little direct and urgent in our counsel. This is why President Trump demands seriousness and reciprocity from our friends here in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a time of headlines heralding the end of the trans-Atlantic era, let it be known and clear to all that this is neither our goal nor our wish,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cBecause for us Americans, our home may be in the Western hemisphere, but we will always be a child of Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have fought against each other, then reconciled, then fought and reconciled again. And we have bled and died side-by-side on battlefields from Kapyong to Kandahar,” Rubio said. “And I\u2019m here today to make it clear that America is charting the path for a new century of prosperity. and that once again, we want to do it together with you, our cherished allies and our oldest friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPresident Donald Trump reiterated interest in acquiring Greenland as an American territory. \u201cWe need Greenland from the standpoint of national security and the European Union needs us to have it.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a friendly and reassuring assessment of America\u2019s relations with Europe under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8077,48,52,51,47,50,49,65161],"class_list":{"0":"post-177897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news","15":"tag-nato"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}