Vice President JD Vance publicly equipped European leaders on a multitude of questions from free speech in security and mass migration, as symmerable tensions between the United States and its close ally, were cooked on Friday on Friday.
The vice president used a high-security podium that focused on the invasion of Ukraine and the threat of Russia represents Europe and the rest of the world to collect social issues to American law.
“The threat I worries the most about Europe Vis-à-Vis Europe is not Russia. It’s not China. It’s not an external actor,” he said at the Munich Conference. “What I worry is a threat from – withdrawal Europe from some of the most basic values, values shared with the United States.”
He added, “I heard a lot about what you need to defend from and of course, that’s important. But what seemed a little less clear to … is what exactly are you defending?”
The comments of the Vice President are a meeting with an ice reception and only scattered applause – and clarified about how American democracy could “survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg, you, guys you can survive a few months of Elon Musk.”
German Defense Minister Boris was conceived by Vance’s remarks during the meeting later, saying the German language that “not acceptable” was that the US vice president is compared to a state that prevails in some auto-authoritarian regimes. “
“This is not acceptable,” Pistorius said. “This is not Europe, not a democracy in which I live in and where I am currently running my election campaign. And that is not a democracy that I testify every day in our parliament. Any opinion has a voice.”
“I was in the room in Munich for speech Van Vance,” I wrote a Senar Andy Kim, Dn.j., wrote Post on x. “Don’t talk about Russia, Ukraine, China. Just criticism of our allies and focus on” threat from within. “His speech will win our opponent who will see it as a green light to act while America is distracted / divided.”
The growth between the US and Europe is growing after the President Donald Trump accused the exclusion of Kyiv and the continent from peace to complete a nearly three-year war in Ukraine.
Later in the day, Vance, the US Secretary of State and the US Secretary-General for Ukraine and Russia were part of the American delegation that met directly with Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials at a bilateral meeting at the conference.
“The goal, as the President Trump did, we want the war to approach,” Vance told reporters briefly briefly briefed into the room after the meeting began, but we want to stop enduring, lasting peace, And not a kind of peace that will have eastern Europe in conflict just a few years down the road. “
Zelenskyy thanked the US and Trump to support Ukraine and said they would work on the plan dealing “how to stop Putin and finish war.”
Throughout the entire event, European leaders showed up that they increased their criticism trump for peace efforts.
“The new American administration has a very different view of ours, those who have no attention to the established rules, partnership and adult trust,” said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the conference on Friday, before the Vance’s comments.
“We have to accept it and we can deal with it. But I am not sure that this is not in the interest of the international community for this worldview to become a dominant paradigm,” Steinmeier said, whose fasting was largely ceremonial, according to Reuters.
The President of the European Commission in Ursula Von Leyen said that the world in the history “where” the great challenges of weaving “, as the international community of Russian President Vladimir Putin answered” “destroy Ukraine.”
There is a growing alarm across Europe after what is Trump descriptive As a “long-lasting and highly productive” conversation with the path of the end of the war in Ukraine.
Trump was accused of closing Kyiv and Europe from peacekeeping talks, while the comments made for the future of Ukraine, he encouraged fear and rage into that country.
Speaking at the Security Conference on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he talked to Trump and warned the US president not to believe Putin when he said he wanted to be part of the peace process.
“I told him a liar,” Zelensky said, told Trump about Putin, adding to call the US president to increase pressure on Putin because, “I don’t trust him. “
Zelensky said that it is important that no decisions on Ukraine without Ukraine. He also said that in his first phone call with Joe Biden, the president said that Ukraine could not join NATO. The United States “never seen us in NATO,” Zelensky said. “They just talked about it, but they really didn’t want us in NATO.”
The conference on Friday comes in the midst of growing concerns about which the action of Moscow can take if it sends it victory in Ukraine, especially in the middle proposal that the United States will not defend NATOs if they are attacked.
Last year, NATO members showed that Ukraine was on the “non-return road” to the eventual membership. But Trump and the Pete Hegseth Secretary’s Defense NATO membership and Ukraine who regained lost territory are effectively out of the table.
Earlier, Vance may have offered European Allies in the interview with Wall Street Journal, that Russia could face more sanctions, and even military actions if he refused to agree to the long-term independence in Ukraine.
“There are economic levers of course, of course, military tools,” Vanceovers told the journalist, describing the possible pressures that could now apply. “There are any number of formulations, configurations, but we take care of Ukraine that has sovereign independence.”
It did not expand to those comments during his address at the Friday Security Conference.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was condemned by any plan for peace talks on Friday, which do not include Ukraine and Europeans.
“Sham Peace – over the heads of Ukrainians and Europeans – nothing has gained nothing,” said Baerbock in a statement as a security conference in progress. “Sham peace would not bring lasting security, neither for people in Ukraine or for us in Europe or the United States,” she said, toward Reuters.
Baerbock called for talks between the US and international partners who will be held at the Munich Conference, the annual gathering of political and military leaders, as well as diplomats.
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