State Secretary Marco Rubio traveled to Brussels on Thursday to gather the NATO Foreign Minister’s gathering in the midst of a great anxiety for the approach of Trump administration of Europe, including war in Ukraine, relations with Russia and growing trade war of President Trump with a continent.

The visit of Mr. Rubioa to the Federal Federation, which is the first by the high Trump of the administration officials this year, because the relations between the United States and Europe have abruptly crossed from the narrow cooperation of the Biden era to distrust and sharp under Lord Trump.

At the same time, NATO officials can welcome the opportunity to award Mr. Rubiou, which many consider to be the most popular member of Mr. Trump’s national security team.

As a Senator 2023, representing Florida, Mr. Rubio was choping the legislation that required any president to seek the advice and consent of the Senate before receiving from the organization. Former assistants say Mr Trump has been thinking privately about taking that step privately, which would break the 32-state military alliance formed to counteract Russia.

Foreign officials dealing with Mr. Rubio, since he became the best diplomat of Mr. Trump, described him as the diminishing of some wild ideas of Mr. Trump and translating them into more realistic approaches to politics, although they also ask whether he truly speaks for the president he had no narrow personal relationship.

And only so much Mr. Rubioa can do on the agenda of Mr. Trump’s sugar coat, which is guided by the opinion that Europe is economically exploited by the United States, is culturally out of synchronization with the values ​​of Mr. Trump’s political movement and has to do business with Russian President, Vladimir V. Putin.

Mr. Rubio is also coming Just a day after Mr. Trump announced 20 percent tariffs about imports from the European Union. In the White House on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said of the EU, “They have taken us away. So sad to see. That’s so pathetic.”

At meetings with NATO ministers, it is expected that Mr. Rubio will press Mr. Trump’s invitation to the fast end of the war in Ukraine, an approach that alarms many European leaders who are predominantly supporting Kiev and fearing that Mr. Trump will end the attractive Mr. Putin.

Mr. Rubiou’s ministers will do their best to shape the efforts of Trump’s administration to conclude an agreement between Kiev and Moscow, which stopped over wide gaps between the warring parties, and persuaded the United States not to leave Ukraine.

Mr. Rubio is also likely to repeat Mr. Trump’s request for NATO countries to increase their military consumption at 5 percent of their gross domestic product, even as many of them struggle to fill in consumption goals of 2 percent of the Alliance made years ago. Mr. Trump and other top American officials believe that the Alliance relies too much on the United States for protection.

This has become a clear discussion to European officials among top -notch Trump administration officials last month on Signal app This was unknowingly involving a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg from Atlantic magazine. During the textual chain, on the US plan for bombing the Houthhi militants in Yemen, Vice President JD Vance complained that America “again” was “merging” Europe, taking unilateral measures to protect the international shipbags attacked by Houthhi.

“I fully share your abomination of European free load,” replied Defense Minister of the Fifth Hegsetth. “It’s pathetic.”

Mr. Trump himself warned that he might not come to the defense of NATO countries that he believes he does not spend enough on their army, despite the dedication to the federal alliance for mutual self-defense. “If they don’t pay, I won’t defend them,” the president told reporters last month.

An additional tension is the determination of Mr. Trump to get Greenland Island, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark, a member of NATO. Mr. Trump shocked officials from Denmark and other countries NATO, refusing to exclude force in taking Greenland, although Mr. Vance said in a recent visit to the island that military actions were not considering.

The Danish Foreign Minister will attend a gathering in Brussels, although it is not clear if he and Mr. Rubio would talk about Greenland. Danish officials say they cannot negotiate the fate of Greenland themselves because the island is entitled to self -determination.

Mr Rubiou will join in Brussels a new US Ambassador to NATO, Matthew G. Whitakerwhom the Senate confirmed closely on Tuesday.

NATO officials are not sure what to do from Mr. Whitaker, who briefly was the acting of the Attorney General during the first term of Mr. Trump, but does not have an external policy. During a certificate hearing, Mr. Whitaker assured the senators that the dedication of the United States was NATO “iron”.