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Home / NATO / Marco Rubio treads a fine line at NATO
NATO, Europe and Eurasia

April 3, 2025

Marco Rubio treads a fine line at NATO

By Daniel DePetris

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s trip to NATO headquarters in Brussels couldn’t have been easy for either Rubio or the Europeans.

The normally copacetic relationship between the United States and Europe isn’t in shambles as the more overly sensitive lawmakers and pundits would have you believe. But it’s not exactly rosy either. European policy elites for the most part like to downplay their differences with Trump’s Washington and emphasize the positive, but it’s hard to be a European politician these days and not be terrified of the future.

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