This statement is embarrassing - Europe doesn't hate Trump - liberal European leaders do not like the fact we finally have a President with a backbone that is making them hold to their agreements.
Try listening to the BBC World News via your favourite podcast app.
You'll realise that behind the normal, adult "realpolitik-friendly" speech (which Trump and Vance UTTERLY failed to do in their own Oval Office the other day with Zelenskyy) - there's a deep loathing of having to do anything with the orange man. America, yes. The orange man? It's worse than sighing with resignation. It's face-slapping agitation - wondering if you're actually awake and that latest atrocity actually happened? It's wondering how so many Americans actually let themselves vote for him? It's a deep shock, an epistemological, existential moment of dread.
They let HIM back in the White House?
Oh no - on no oh no oh no!
Feb 14 after Trump called Putin without Zelenskyy (2 minutes in.)
On Russia: "Why are we giving them EVERYTHING THEY WANT before we've even negotiated? It's appeasement - and it's never worked!"
Also - the BBC showed how Putin LOVED Trump calling him! How they are going to be best buddies!
"To many western nations, Vladimir Putin is a pariah. To Donald Trump - he's a partner!"
The US is ruling out Ukraine joining NATO
www.bbc.co.uk
(Think Hitler going into the Sudetenland, then Czechoslovakia, then Poland!)
Then Vance LECTURED the EU on 'free speech'!
This is how that went down.
That speech by JD Vance was made in Munich just a week before the German election. His barely coded call for the AfD to be allowed into government caused shockwaves in Germany and in the conference hall of Munich, where I witnessed the reaction of the crowd. It also posed very profound questions for those Germans who are committed to their country’s long-standing alliance with America.
Gideon Rachman and Laura Pitel talk to Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of Axel Springer
www.ft.com
Oh the irony! He sounded like a whiny high-school debate team member going off topic. They were there to discuss how to contain RUSSIA'S WESTERN LAND GRAB TOWARDS NATO - and instead Vance is there whining that he wanted his besties to be allowed on the debate team in another school! Here's the thing. This is GERMANY! Does he not get that no other party will ever form government with the AFD - will ever negotiate or participate in such an atrocity. They are literally dog-whistling to descendants of the actual NAZIS!
What on earth was Vance thinking?
That they wanted Germany to get as harsh with refugees and irresponsible on the world stage as America? That they wanted Germany to go back in time to 1938? Good one Vance - great talk!
As for democracy - how about America opening up to other parties? Oh the irony that Vance DARED to lecture the EU on democracy?
MORE PARTIES = CLEARER POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES = MORE OPTIONS TO VOTE FOR = MORE DEMOCRACY!
Many EU countries have proportional representation and more political parties than the USA's entrenched duopoly! In Australia we also have more parties. It means our "Greens" can be distinguished from our "Labor" party (which is like your Democrats.) See - when you only have 2 parties - the "Greens" would be in the Democrats somewhere - saying quite outrageously communist things. On the other hand, white nationalist lurk in the alt-right wings somewhere. Each party can point at the extremes in the other. It makes people more fearful and paranoid - and yet the voters are also robbed of their choice!
So you tell me - who has more democracy again?
His Harvard trained Vice President was firm,
Yeah - in a completely OFF-TOPIC anti-EU rant!
Again - back to high school debating.
If this rant were delivered in a high school debate team - it would have failed.
It was off-topic and not answering the question.
With all Vance's legal training - did he not cover the bit about 'answering the question'?
lucid and well versed in his address. He spoke eloquently and plainly.
Being able to speak the English language is not an especially high bar? Or maybe it is if you're comparing Vance to the word salads your President blurts out without thinking! Trump's word salads make world leaders wince and look away.
EG: "Raw earths!" I doubt Vance would have said THAT! Vance is kind of smart - and Christian Philosopher William Lane Craig has stated that he read a philosophy paper Vance delivered that was intelligent and nuanced.
But he has succumbed to Trumpism. You would not KNOW he was smart by that off-topic offensive rant in Munich.
It really seems America has 'checked out' and gone AWOL.
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley praised Vice President JD Vance for criticizing German censorship laws during his speech to the Munich Security Conference, where the vice president called out organizers for banning both far-left and far-right wing parties. Turley also reacted on "America's Newsroom," Tuesday to a CBS host blaming the Holocaust on free-speech.
Yay! Vance want's the brown shirts back!
I mean - really?
