Rubio expresses desire to maintain trans-Atlantic relations despite increasing rift

MUNICH (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio connected Saturday emphasized the United States’ tendency to sphere the trans-Atlantic alliance, declaring that it “will ever beryllium a kid of Europe” astatine a league wherever a rift with Washington’s European allies opened up a twelvemonth ago.

Rubio told the Munich Security Conference that the “euphoria” of the Western triumph successful the Cold War led to a unsafe delusion of triumph that is present threatening the precise institutions that broke some the Nazi authorities and the Soviet Union.

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