Marco Rubio

But it has to be an alliance of allies that are capable and willing to fight for who they are and what's important.

What we can't answer, but we're going to continue to test, is whether there is an outcome that Ukraine can live with and that Russia will accept.

So in a time of headlines heralding the end of the transatlantic era, let it be known and clear to all that this is neither our goal nor our wish.

Because for us Americans, our home may be in the Western Hemisphere, but we will always be a child of Europe.

The old world is gone, frankly, the world I grew up in, and we live in a new era of geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to re-examine what that looks like and what our world is going to be.

And

We've had many of these conversations in private with many of our allies.

We are our allies.

And we need to continue to have those conversations.

And I think Saturday, hopefully, and the meetings while they're in Memphis.

What we can't answer, but we're going to continue to test, is whether there is an outcome that Ukraine can live with and that Russia will accept.

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.