Europe Today Looks Different From the One Trump’s Team Describes

There is an Afghan grocery store on the blocks outside the main train station in Munich. Halal food counters are sprinkled amid the cathedral spires and beer halls. Nearly one of every three residents you meet in town is not German. It’s a decent approximation of what many European cities, and European people, look like today — and a different Europe from the one the Trump administration says it wants to be friends with.

Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, tried to soothe a year of friction between the United States and its trans-Atlantic allies at the Munich Security Conference. His speech reiterated America’s commitment to Europe but wrapped it in historical and cultural ties that seemingly exclude large sections of the current European population.

“We are part of one civilization: Western civilization,” Mr.

Germany, Munich

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