Secretary Rubio said on Friday: “You go to these NATO meetings and you meet with people, what they will tell you our shared history, our shared legacy, our shared values, our shared priorities. That’s what they talk about as the reason for this alliance.
“Well, if you erase your shared history, your shared culture, your shared ideology, your shared priorities, your shared principles, then what – then you just have a straight-up defense agreement. That’s all you have.”
Mr Rubio said that the Untied States was founded on “Western values” such the principles of liberty, individualism, and self-governance, and noted that “many of these ideas that led to the founding of our country found their genesis in some of these places in the Western alliance.”
However, the Secretary said that the Trump administration is “concerned that, particularly in parts of Western Europe, those things that underpin our alliance and our tie to them could be under threat in the long term.”
“And by the way, there are leaders in those countries that recognize that as well. Some say it openly. Some say it privately. In the eastern and southern part of Europe, they’re much more open about it. Nonetheless, it is a factor that needs to be addressed,” he said.
Rubio specifically pointed to the problems surrounding mass migration, citing the recent Islamist terror attack at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Australia as an example.
“Mass migration over the last decade has been highly disruptive, not just to the United States but also to continental Europe and in some cases in the Indo-Pacific as well. So I just think this is a real challenge that multiple Western advanced, industrialized countries are facing, and I think it’s pronounced in parts of Europe as well,” he said.
Rubio differentiated immigration from “mass migration”, which he said is a “negative thing” as it is “very difficult for any society to absorb and assume hundreds of thousands if not millions of people over a short period of time, especially if they come from halfway around the world.”
“I think it’s a growing concern in Europe. I mean, there are other voices in Europe and obviously in Australia as well that have expressed concern about this. These are facts. This doesn’t make you anti-anybody. What it makes is you do have as a sovereign country the right to control how many people you absorb and how many people you allow in and who those people are. This is a very basic sovereign right.”
Question: Why don’t France and Germany deport their troublesome third world visitors ? Those leaders should pay attention to what Rubio said or one they will wake and their sovereignty will be no more.
Fred, I think the leadership in those countries is analogous to the type of leadership we had here before Trump– and that we still have, in some quarters. They want national suicide.
Lindbergh presciently warned in 1940 that if the US let FDR maneuver us into WWII, that we would never extricate ourselves from being sucked into being Europe’s mother for ever.
We should get out of NATO. There isn’t enough freedom left in most of those countries to protect. US taxpayer subsidy of their military just strengthens the tyrants in the various countries but especially in Brussels. George Washington’s advice is as good as when James Madison wrote it for him.
NATO was the aggressor in Serbia, Libya, and Ukraine, leading to hundreds of thousand innocent people being dead.
I agree, J. Sobran. I had read over the last 24 hours that NATO’s governing documents require that member states have free speech and that they have fair elections. Both of these requirements have been violated repeatedly. Christians and conservatives have been targeted for various kinds of speech. Conservative candidates and parties have been targeted and eliminated. And this has happened in multiple European countries. The cultural Marxists are in charge.
We really ought to get out.
Lindbergh was pretty prophetic.