Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a message to Europe that needed to be said.

Keep erasing your culture, and you’ll have nothing left worth defending.

“If you erase your shared history, your shared culture, your shared ideology, your shared priorities, your shared principles, then what — then you just have a straight-up defense agreement. That’s all you have.”

The European response? Germany’s chancellor called it “unacceptable.” The EU’s unelected leader demanded America stop “interfering” in European democracy.

Translation: Stop noticing what we’re doing to ourselves.

The “Civilizational Erasure” Warning

The White House’s National Security Strategy memo didn’t mince words.

Europe faces “civilizational erasure” if it continues globalist policies of mass migration and attacks on fundamental liberties like freedom of speech.

That’s not diplomatic language. That’s a warning from an ally watching a slow-motion suicide.

Rubio doubled down at Friday’s press briefing. The Trump administration is “concerned that, particularly in parts of Western Europe, those things that underpin our alliance and our tie to them could be under threat in the long term.”

The things that underpin the alliance: shared history, shared values, shared culture. The foundations of Western civilization.

Those foundations are crumbling — and European leaders are angry at America for pointing it out.

Europe’s Leaders Know It’s True

Here’s the telling detail.

Rubio noted that European leaders privately agree with America’s assessment — they just won’t say it publicly.

“By the way, there are leaders in those countries that recognize that as well. Some say it openly. Some say it privately. In the eastern and southern part of Europe, they’re much more open about it.”

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán says it openly. Italy’s Giorgia Meloni says it openly. Poland’s leaders have been saying it for years.

Western European leaders — Germany, France, the EU bureaucrats — know the same thing. They just can’t admit it without destroying their political careers.

So they attack America instead.

The Bondi Beach Example

Rubio pointed to the terror attack in Australia as Exhibit A.

Two Pakistani migrants murdered 15 Jews at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach. ISIS-inspired. Products of mass migration.

“Mass migration over the last decade has been highly disruptive, not just to the United States but also to continental Europe and in some cases in the Indo-Pacific as well,” Rubio said.

“Disruptive” is diplomatic language for what’s actually happening: terrorism, crime waves, parallel societies, and the erosion of social cohesion across the Western world.

Europe has experienced this more acutely than America. Their leaders opened the borders in 2015 and never closed them. Now they’re living with the consequences.

Immigration vs. Mass Migration

Rubio made an important distinction.

“I differentiated immigration from mass migration, which is a ‘negative thing’ as it is ‘very difficult for any society to absorb and assimilate hundreds of thousands if not millions of people over a short period of time, especially if they come from halfway around the world.'”

Immigration — controlled, selective, gradual — can strengthen a nation.

Mass migration — uncontrolled, indiscriminate, rapid — destroys social cohesion. It overwhelms public services. It imports cultures that don’t share Western values. It creates permanent underclasses that never assimilate.

Europe chose mass migration. Now they’re shocked that their societies are fracturing.

“This Doesn’t Make You Anti-Anybody”

Rubio preempted the obvious attacks:

“These are facts. This doesn’t make you anti-anybody. What it makes is you do have as a sovereign country the right to control how many people you absorb and how many people you allow in and who those people are. This is a very basic sovereign right.”

Controlling your borders isn’t racism. Preserving your culture isn’t xenophobia. Deciding who becomes a citizen isn’t bigotry.

These are basic functions of sovereign nations. Every country in the world exercises these rights — except Western nations that have been guilt-tripped into abandoning them.

Rubio is stating the obvious. The backlash proves how far Europe has fallen.

The EU Demands America “Not Interfere”

Ursula von der Leyen — the unelected head of the European Commission — responded by demanding that the United States not “interfere” in European democracy.

Unelected. Demanding. About democracy.

The irony writes itself.

Von der Leyen wasn’t elected by European citizens. She was selected by EU bureaucrats in backroom deals. She leads an institution that routinely overrides the democratic decisions of member states.

And she’s lecturing America about interfering in democracy.

Germany Calls Truth “Unacceptable”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said many aspects of the White House memo were “unacceptable to us from a European perspective.”

What’s unacceptable? The truth?

Germany opened its borders in 2015 and imported over a million migrants in a single year. Crime rates spiked. Terror attacks followed. Social services were overwhelmed. Political polarization exploded.

Now America is pointing out that this was a mistake — and Germany finds it “unacceptable.”

Maybe what’s actually unacceptable is policies that led to the Cologne New Year’s attacks, the Berlin Christmas market massacre, and the ongoing degradation of German society.

Eastern Europe Gets It

Rubio noted the split within Europe:

“In the eastern and southern part of Europe, they’re much more open about it.”

Hungary refused mass migration. Poland refused mass migration. The Czech Republic refused mass migration.

These countries were vilified by Brussels. They were threatened with sanctions. They were called racist and backwards.

And they don’t have the problems Western Europe has. They don’t have no-go zones. They don’t have mass sexual assaults. They don’t have regular terror attacks.

Funny how that works.

What’s Actually at Stake

Rubio framed the core issue:

“You go to these NATO meetings and you meet with people, what they will tell you our shared history, our shared legacy, our shared values, our shared priorities. That’s what they talk about as the reason for this alliance.”

NATO isn’t just a defense agreement. It’s an alliance of nations that share Western civilization — its values, its history, its culture.

If European nations erase that shared heritage through mass migration and cultural self-destruction, what’s left to defend?

An alliance requires commonality. If Europe becomes unrecognizable — if Paris looks like Islamabad, if London looks like Karachi, if Berlin looks like Damascus — why would America sacrifice blood and treasure to defend it?

That’s Rubio’s real warning. Keep destroying your civilization, and you’ll find yourself alone.

The Warning Europe Needs to Hear

Marco Rubio said what needed to be said.

Western Europe is committing slow-motion cultural suicide. Mass migration is erasing the shared heritage that binds the Atlantic alliance. Freedom of speech is being criminalized. Native populations are being displaced.

European leaders can call it “unacceptable” all they want. That doesn’t make it less true.

America is watching. America is warning. The question is whether Europe will listen before it’s too late.

“If you erase your shared history, your shared culture, your shared ideology, your shared priorities, your shared principles, then what — then you just have a straight-up defense agreement.”

And even that won’t last long.