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<\/a>The greatest threat to the West is immigration, not Moscow<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nJonathan S. Tobin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The initial reaction from Europeans who were in attendance at U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2019s\u00a0speech<\/a>\u00a0at the recent Munich Security Conference was relief. The mere fact that Rubio had reaffirmed Washington\u2019s commitment to the Atlantic alliance calmed the nerves of NATO nations. They have been rattled by President Donald Trump\u2019s demands for America\u2019s acquisition of\u00a0Greenland<\/a>\u00a0from Denmark, as well as by the general tone of the administration\u2019s attitude toward its European allies. It was also considered to be not as confrontational as the address given to the same gathering a year ago by Vice President JD Vance.<\/span><\/p>\n Vance\u00a0frightened<\/a>\u00a0the Europeans because he bluntly called them out for hypocrisy about democracy. The liberal elites who run most of Western Europe like to talk about defending democratic values, especially in contrast to Russia and its invasion of Ukraine. Yet by seeking to suppress right-wing parties that have protested unfettered immigration from Africa and the Middle East, it\u2019s clear that they don\u2019t really believe in such values. Just look at the ensuing impact this has had on their own countries, especially with respect to the growing influence of Islamists.<\/span><\/p>\n This particular issue wasn\u2019t mentioned in the secretary of state\u2019s speech, and that gratified the cross-Atlantic foreign-policy establishment that despises the administration both men serve. While they were pleased by Rubio\u2019s emphasis on Europe and the United States needing one another, they also chose to downplay the substance of the address. In many respects, it was similar in purpose to Vance\u2019s more controversial speech.<\/span><\/p>\n Rubio\u2019s main purpose was not so much to mollify the Europeans, who remain up in arms about Trump\u2019s demands for Greenland, despite the fact that they are still unwilling to pay their fair share of the defense of a continent that relies primarily on American military might to preserve its independence. Rather, it was an eloquent reminder that the real threat to Europe is the one posed by the same issue raised by Vance\u2014namely, that the erasure of borders and consequent unfettered mass immigration by those who don\u2019t believe in the values of Western civilization, who are undermining the national identities of those countries.<\/span><\/p>\n Equally important, he was again sounding the alarm about the way environmentalist extremism and globalist economics\u2014promoted by the same liberal elites who advocate open-border policies on both sides of the Atlantic\u2014aren\u2019t just undermining Western economies and the futures of their citizens. They\u2019re also hamstringing the ability of these nations to defend themselves. As he rightly asserted, the rational way forward for the United States and its allies is to again embrace the specific civilizational legacy of the West, rooted in democratic systems of government, culture and faith that the toxic neo-Marxist doctrines of the left are trying to destroy. At the same time, Europe should follow America\u2019s lead in attempting to re-industrialize and to stop outsourcing its ability to manufacture goods and defense materials to a Chinese communist state that cares little for its environmentalist pieties and that poses a genuine geostrategic threat.<\/span><\/p>\n Above all, Rubio made it clear that their faith in multilateralism and the United Nations is not only letting them down. An unwillingness to acknowledge that the world body has been a dismal failure\u2014not to mention a destructive force that is enabling antisemitism\u2014is a far more crucial difference between Trump and the Europeans than the president\u2019s critics understand.<\/span><\/p>\n That didn\u2019t escape the notice of\u00a0The New York Times.<\/em>\u00a0The so-called newspaper of record devoted no less than four separate articles to the job of pointing out that Rubio\u2019s somewhat more diplomatic enunciation of American principles was\u00a0at odds<\/a>\u00a0with the positions held by most NATO member nations, in addition to the Trump-hating foreign-policy establishment in the United States. They were right about that. But far from this being proof that Rubio is just a more pleasant facade to what they see as Trump\u2019s mindless destruction of the post-World War II order, his speech pointed out some basic truths that needed to be reiterated.<\/span><\/p>\n What he said also explained why the administration\u2019s approach is not only a justified defense of the interests of the United States and the West, but also in the best interests of the State of Israel and the defense of Jews everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n The analyses by the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0were correct in pointing out that nowhere in Rubio\u2019s speech did he\u00a0mention Russia<\/a>\u00a0or the claim, so often asserted in Munich by many Europeans, that Moscow is the primary threat to the West.<\/span><\/p>\n The reason Rubio omitted mentioning Russia is not because the administration approves of Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s illegal invasion of Ukraine or his ill-advised decision to reject American efforts to broker an end to that destructive war. Trump opposes the war and wants it to end on terms that will preserve Ukrainian independence, even if that means that it won\u2019t get back all of the territory it had back in 2014, when the land war really started (a reasonable compromise rooted in what is possible rather than fantasies).<\/span><\/p>\n Washington also understands that the nightmare scenarios about the Russian army overrunning Europe after a conquest of Ukraine that were echoed in the\u00a0Times\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0stories are equally unrealistic. In its current state, Russia isn\u2019t capable of posing such a threat. Its failure to defeat Ukraine testifies to that. While still a dangerous rogue nuclear state allied with China and Iran, it is but a shadow of the once mighty Soviet empire that, before its defeat in the Cold War, did pose such a threat to Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n The Europeans\u2014and the Americans who agree with them\u2014seem to think it is still 1987, and the forces of the since-disbanded Soviet-led Warsaw Pact face them in the middle of Germany. But they are equally wrong to be so angry about Trump\u2019s demands for Greenland and his more transactional approach to the alliance. If they want to step up and pay for their own defense\u2014a frequent theme echoed by many at the Munich conference this year\u2014they can certainly do so. The only problem is that no one seriously believes that they can or will accomplish that. These countries have grown prosperous while being sheltered by the umbrella of the U.S. defense establishment, with few signs that they are willing to make the sacrifices to pay for the kind of armed force that will ensure their security against Russia or anyone else.<\/span><\/p>\n The most crucial issue facing Europe today isn\u2019t the war in Ukraine or Putin. It\u2019s the way so many in the West have abandoned a defense of their own values and civilization. Contrary to the conventional wisdom peddled by the liberal media, it wasn\u2019t Trump that broke the Western alliance. Rather, it was the European elites who abandoned their own heritage and belief in its eternal truth and put in its place a failing neo-Marxist mindset that rendered them vulnerable to subversion from within long before Russia invaded Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n Rubio\u2019s message that this civilization is rooted in part in the Christian faith unsettled many people. That shouldn\u2019t frighten Jews, who should understand that it is the Judeo-Christian tradition that is the guarantee of their freedom and security in Europe, as well as in the United States. The efforts of Islamists and secular Europeans to discard that tradition are directly linked to the red-green alliance of Marxists and Islamists that has been the engine of a surge in antisemitism around the globe since the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Pointing this out isn\u2019t xenophobic or Islamophobic; it is simply recognition of an unfortunate reality.<\/span><\/p>\n As the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0wrote<\/a>, the Europe that exists now doesn\u2019t really resemble the one that created and cherished the Western canon that Rubio exalted as being as integral to American identity as it is to that of the old world from which it emerged. Mass immigration from Muslim countries in the past decade and longer has transformed many of these nations for the worse, where belief in their own political, cultural and faith traditions has declined precipitately. Rubio didn\u2019t specifically mention it, but a natural consequence of these trends has been growing hostility toward Israel and Jews that is present everywhere in Europe\u2014except, that is, in those nations, like the Czech Republic and Hungary, which agree with Trump about defending borders and national traditions.<\/span><\/p>\n Rubio also didn\u2019t mention Israel, which most Europeans have largely betrayed since Oct. 7. Nevertheless, the foreign-policy principles he enunciated in Munich\u2014opposition to mass immigration from Africa and the Middle East, preservation of borders and Western civilization\u2014are essential to the security of the Jewish state and its war of self-defense against genocidal Islamists.<\/span><\/p>\n Many Americans, like the Europeans, have gotten caught up in Trump\u2019s trolling of his critics and his efforts to push allies to start acting as if they are as invested in their own defense as the United States has been. Some, especially in the Jewish community, are also stuck in an outdated mindset that wrongly identifies today\u2019s immigration of antisemitic populations to Western nations as somehow analogous to past chapters of history, in which Jews fled persecution and sought a safe haven in America and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n They should realize that the policies stated by Rubio in his Munich speech are not just correct, but inextricably linked to any effort to roll back the tide of Jew-hatred, and the support for Jewish genocide and Israel\u2019s destruction that has gained so much support on the political left. If they are serious about supporting Israel\u2019s continued existence, then they should stop sniping at Trump and obsessing about Russia, and get behind the administration\u2019s efforts to wake up the Europeans to what is really threatening the West.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> The greatest threat to the West is immigration, not Moscow Jonathan S. Tobin Europeans were relieved by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2019s Munich speech, as it reaffirmed the Atlantic alliance. But were they really listening to what he was saying? 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\nEuropeans were relieved by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2019s Munich speech, as it reaffirmed the Atlantic alliance. But were they really listening to what he was saying?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivers a keynote speech at the 62nd Munich Security Conference in Germany on Feb. 14, 2026. Photo by Johannes Simon\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nRubio\u2019s purpose<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Obsessing about Russia<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Immigration and antisemitism<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Jonathan S. Tobin<\/strong> is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS \u201cThink Twice\u201d podcast, both the weekly video program and the \u201cJonathan Tobin Daily\u201d program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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