What I wrote below may be controversial – and it is – but I have been thinking about this in security terms for a long time and have my own, specific view of what Marco Rubio and today’s American administration under his leadership mean when they speak about Europe’s decline, and how this connects to the American understanding of security as the power that provides that security.
Marco Rubio’s recent address at the Munich Security Conference was not just another routine political statement – it was a “wake‑up call” for the whole of Western civilization and an admission of the existential crisis Europe faces today. When we talk about Europe’s “fall,” the problem is not only small defense budgets or technological lag; it is much deeper. We have entered an era in which, despite digital hyper‑connectivity, the individual has become more lonely and atomized than ever. The post‑truth environment and social networks have further expelled the individual from traditional communities such as the family, church, and local community, dealing a direct blow to their sense of a security “homeland,” to identity, and so on.[
