Europe weighing its words after Washington’s publication of an official policy paper that warns this old continent’s under threat of ‘civilization erasure’, with fading powers overrun by migrants. It’s the logical follow-up to vice president JD Vance’s admonishments back in February at the Munich Security Conference, one that goes far beyond the unexplained absence of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at last week’s NATO foreign ministers meeting. An irrational about-face on historic ties with the continent or is the real outlier the last 80 years when Washington took it upon itself to ensure Europe’s defense in the name of fighting Soviet expansion? Before that, the US was a much more isolationist nation. Our panel scrutinizes the premise that Europe’s in economic and moral decline, how it’s adapting to this wild swing in superpower alliances and whether it’s for what it takes to fend for itself.
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