At least another transatlantic embarrassment was avoided at this year’s Munich Security Conference (MSC). Whereas US Vice President JD Vance had treated European allies with contempt the previous year, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sounded much more conciliatory this time around. In substance, however, he too presented the idea of a white and nationalist “West” that has little in common with most European notions of the transatlantic community. That is why the audience’s exuberant applause