Marco Rubio

Because we're two large countries with huge global interests, our national interests will often not align.

Their national interests and ours will not align.

And we owe it to the world to try to manage those as best we can, obviously avoiding conflict, both economic and worse.

The world has changed and the alliance has to change.

But the fundamental thing that has to change is we have to remind ourselves of why it is we have an alliance in the first place.

This is not just a military arrangement.

This is not just some commercial arrangement.

It is what holds us together in the first place as an alliance is our shared civilizational values.

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

We want Europe to survive.

We want Europe to prosper because we're interconnected in so many different ways and because our alliance is so critical.

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

We can no longer place the so-called global order

above the vital interests of our people and our nations.

We're not giving up.

The world is changing very fast right in front of us.

The old world is gone, frankly, the world I grew up in.

And we live in a new era in geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to sort of reexamine what that looks like and what our role is going to be.

And...

We've had many of these conversations in private with many of our allies, and they are our allies.