The American Vice President JD Vance has launched an attack to rock democracy, saying that the biggest threat faces the continent is not from Russia and China, but within “within”.
Vance was expected to use his speech at the Munich Security Conference to address possible talks on the end of the war in Ukraine.
Instead, the majority accused of European governments – including the United Kingdom – withdrew from its values and ignoring voters for migration and freedom of speech.
The address was filled with silence in the hallway, and later denied several politicians at the conference. The German defense minister Boris Pistorius said it was “not acceptable.”
Vance reiterated the Trump administration line that Europe must “boost in a great way to provide its defense.”
The Ukrainian war was mentioned, he hoped that he could achieve “reasonably settlement”, after the American President Donald Trump earlier this week that he and Russian Vladimir Putin agreed to begin peacekeeping talks.
But Vance’s address in another way focused on cultural issues and key topics of the Trump campaign for the American Presidency – departure into the usual security and defense hearings at the annual conference.
He cited the European Union of “Komercercije”, the free speech, blame the continent for mass migration and accused his leaders to withdraw from “some of his most obvious values.”
The head of the EU’s foreign policy Kaya Kallas, was characterized by Vance as “trying to choose to fight” with Europe, the home of some of the nearest USA allies.
Michael McFaul, a former American ambassador in Russia, said, said “Politico Vance comments” offensive “and” just empirically not true. “
Vance used his 20-minute speech for a separate several European nations, including the UK.
He picked up a legal case in which He was convicted by a veteran of the army that softly begged outside the abortion clinic Violations 150 meters safe zone around the center.
The safe zone, introduced in October 2022, prohibition of activities in favor of or against abortion, including protests, harassment and shaving.
But Vance claimed that “the basic freedoms of religious Britons were, especially” under threats.
Nine days before the tense national elections in Germany, he touched the heated debate in the country around the main political parties held by the so-called “firewall” of non-cooperation with the end of the end.
In decades since democracy was renovated in Germany after the defeat of the Nazi, there was consensus among its main political parties that they do not work with the ultimate right parties.
“Democracy rests in the Holy Principle that the voice of the people is important,” Vance said. “There is no space for protective walls. Or support the principle or do not want.”
The AFD’s candidate for the Chancellor, Alice Waridel, later shared parts of his speech on X, praising him as “excellent”. The two allegedly met after that, according to the German public broadcaster ZDF.
In his speech, Pistorius addressed Vanje directly, saying, “Democracy was brought into question the US Vice President for the whole of Europe.
“He talks about the destruction of democracy,” the pistory continued. “And that I understood it correctly, compares the terms in the parts of Europe with those in authoritarian modes … that is not acceptable.”
Vance also embedded by Presidential Elections in Romania, which was annulled in December after the proposed declassified documents It was targeted by Russian state interference.
Vance said the conference: “If your democracy can be destroyed with a few $ 100,000 digital advertising from the country, then it was not very strong.”
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolac said that his country remains “defender of democratic values that Europe shares with the US”.
“All RO (Romanian) authorities are dedicated to organizing the free and true elections by empowering citizens and guaranteeing freedom of vote,” he wrote on X.
Vance later met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskog on the margins of the conference, which otherwise aligned to full invasion of Russia.
During the meeting, Zelensky said that more work was needed to plan to end the fight, while Vance said that the couple shared a “fertile” conversation.
Trump said that, Russian and Ukrainian officials will meet us in Munich, but Moscow said that he did not send a delegation to the summit.
2025-02-14 19:45:00
