Marco Rubio\u2019s soothing tone in Munich masked a familiar message: Europe can remain America\u2019s ally \u2013 but at a cost<\/p>\n
\u2022 Don\u2019t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe greatness of America,\u201d wrote the 19th-century French diplomat, political philosopher and historian Alexis de Tocqueville, \u201clies not in her being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.\u201d<\/p>\n For a brief moment at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) last weekend, European leaders half-thought that their most heartfelt wish \u2013 the return of the old US, that believed in the EU ideal and backed a rules-based world order \u2013 had been granted.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marco Rubio\u2019s soothing tone in Munich masked a familiar message: Europe can remain America\u2019s ally \u2013 but at a cost \u2022 Don\u2019t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here \u201cThe greatness of America,\u201d wrote the 19th-century French diplomat, political philosopher and historian Alexis de Tocqueville, \u201clies not in her being more … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}