Rubio's speech to European allies takes softer tone but sticks to Trump's firm stance

Reminding his audience at the annual Munich Security Conference about America's centuries-long roots in Europe, Mr Rubio said the US would remain forever tied to the continent even as it pushes for changes in the relationship and the institutions that have been the bulwark of the post-World War II world order. Mr Rubio argued that the "euphoria" of the Western victory in the Cold War led to a "dangerous delusion that we had entered 'the end of history'". "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," Mr Rubio said.