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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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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 are closer to it today than we were last year and I'm glad for that. Crossing my fingers that it remains 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
  
  Didn't trump in his first term already sent hundreds or thousands of troops back home? And we were like okay with it?
  
  I mean, probably. I've aged like 3 centuries in the last decade, time is meaningless and my memory doesn't work anymore outside of stale memes
  
  Transatlanticist scum was content with crawling up American arses in return for a few crumbs of the cake.
  
  There was plenty of time for preparations. The writing has been on the wall for more than 8 years. (when that orange Putin sockpuppet was elected US president for the first time)
- Transatlanticists will make sure oft it, unfortunately. Just as they stalled sensible preparations for this very predictable situation back in the day when that orange Muppet was elected into the White House for the first time.

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