An offer of friendship – but on white, Christian, Maga terms

Marco Rubio’s soothing tone in Munich masked a familiar message: Europe can remain America’s ally – but at a cost• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here“The greatness of America,” wrote the 19th-century French diplomat, political philosopher and historian Alexis de Tocqueville, “lies not in her being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.”For a brief moment at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) last weekend, European leaders half-thought that their most heartfelt wish – the return of the old US, that believed in the EU ideal and backed a rules-based world order – had been granted. Continue reading...