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In another time and place - he has a right to say whatever he wants.
As an invited head of state to the European Munich summit - he was there to discuss European security.
Instead he tells Germany how to run their internal domestic politics? I don't know what you know about geopolitics - but that's not 'free speech' - that's meddling in domestic affairs.
EG: Should Zalenskyy have walked into the Oval Office, not made eye contact with Vance, and TOLD Trump to work with Kamala - and nationalise your healthcare to save money to boot?
Cause that's basically what Vance did in Europe.
My point was that responding to a criticism of your country’s policies regarding freedom of speech by saying that the critic had no right to make such an argument has the effect of proving their point.
Also, the remarks of Vance were germane, since the function of NATO was originally to defend the free world against the threat posed by the Soviet Union, but if the free world ceases to be free in a meaningful way, then NATO loses its raison d’etre. Freedom requires a robust defense of free speech and the freedom of religion which at present is unfortunately lacking in most first world countries other than the United States, and which was attacked in the United States as well during the pandemic, with bans on public worship which were in fact, according to the US Supreme Court, an illegal government overreach.
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