I suppose. But the message was just the same.

Marco Rubio said essentially nothing different than J.D. Vance did here last year. But go ahead and welcome it this time, Europe, if it makes you feel better.

EU leaders welcome US tone shift in Rubio’s Munich speech – While European leaders cautiously welcomed a softer tone from the US at the Munich Security Conference, American independence and the “Trumpian narrative” remained top of mind for Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“We in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline. We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history.”