Marco Rubio

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?

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.

From our language to our system of government to our laws to the food we eat to the name of our cities and towns, all of it deeply linked to this Western civilization and culture that we should be proud of.

And it's worth defending.

And ultimately, that's the point.

The point is that people don't fight and die for abstract ideas.

They are willing to fight and defend who they are and what matters and is important to them.

And that was the foundation he laid last year in his speech.

And we add on into this year to explain to people that when we come off as urgent or even critical about decisions that Europe has failed to make or made, it is because we care.

It is because we understand that ultimately...

Our own fate will be intertwined with what happens with Europe.

We want Europe to survive.