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Rubio criticized Europeans for what he called a climate cult and for allowing mass migration, which he says threatens Western culture.

But he says the U.S.

and Europe should work together, not to rationalize a broken system, but to fix it.

But he says the Trump administration doesn't want to separate from Europe, rather revitalize an old friendship.

Responding to that, conference organizer Wolfgang Ischinger says some in the room breathed a sigh of relief.

There was no talk about taking over Greenland or other transatlantic irritants.

Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Munich.

What is it that we fight for?

What is it that binds us together?

And ultimately, it's the fact that we are both heirs to the same civilization.

And it's a great civilization.

And it's one we should be proud of.

It's one that's contributed extraordinarily to the world.

And it's one, frankly, upon which America is built.

I think that both sides are suffering tremendous damage and we'd like to see the war come to an end.

It's a senseless war.

In our view, the president believes that very deeply.

He believes the war would have never happened had he been president at the time.

I think it's the same message.

I think what the vice president said last year very clearly was that Europe had made a series of decisions internally that were threatening to the alliance and ultimately to themselves, not because we hate Europe or we don't like Europeans, but because what is it that we fight for?