Speaking at the annual Munich Security Conference on Saturday, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged European countries to collaborate with the US to build a “new Western century”, describing US-Europe ties as “civilisational”. “We are part of one civilisation – Western civilisation,” he said. His rallying speech comes after more than a year of President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about mass immigration in Europe and his administration’s latest National Security Strategy, which warns of “civilisational erasure” in Europe. Last year, US Vice President JD Vance also lambasted European “liberal values” in his first address at the security conference. As European leaders grapple with the rise of far-right political parties, how will they respond to this new demand from the US, an...