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J. D. Vance launches ideological attack on Europe that highlights rift between EU and US

english.elpais.com J. D. Vance launches ideological attack on Europe that highlights rift between EU and US

At the Munich Security Conference, the vice president avoided talking about the war in Ukraine, and instead focused his speech on criticizing European action against the far right: ‘In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat’

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They should have put him in a dungeon and ransomed him back to the Yanks. At least to find out if Trump even remembers who he is.

The Kremlin is dictating U.S. policy. The E.U. needs to start stockpiling nuclear weapons.

I kind of get the impression that every time Vance leaves a room full of other people, someone inevitably says "what a dipshit" as soon as he's out of hearing range.

In a sensible world this would be the start of Europe fully turning away from America. Alas, we don't live in a sensible world, so...
- We can't do this outright and we can't do it quickly. There are US troops stationed here (for the time being anyway, apparently the new admin is having thoughts about this), there are massive economic dependencies, etc.
  
  Hence the word "start". It'll take a lot of work, and it'll be unpleasant, but it's necessary because the alternative is to let America know that it can consider itself the ruler of us all. To say nothing of all the horrible shit that will come after

Oh hey it comes 🙄. He learned well from Musk And Trump.

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