ER Editor: Some general reporting from European Conservative below, and Politico’s and RT’s focus on JD Vance. His full speech is below —
The U.S. vice president roasted the continent’s way of governing itself.
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Vance railed against establishment politics, urged Europe to curb migration and compared EU leaders to Soviet commissars because they had criticized far-right leaders. The tongue-lashing cemented fears among Europe’s security elites that the United States was diverging from the transatlantic status quo at a rapid pace, and there was little they could do to stop it.
“This is a new United States and it’s clear the old one Europe’s been used to for decades is gone,” said one former senior U.S. diplomat. “It could be this is the one wake-up call that actually wakes Europe up.”
POLITICO spoke to 14 conference attendees at the forum, several of whom were granted anonymity to discuss their reactions to Vance’s speech candidly. Many reacted with a mixture of shock and anger. …
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From RT —
”The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor,” he said, adding “what I worry about is the threat from within.”
Vance mentioned a former senior European Union official, who went on TV to cheer the Romanian constitutional court’s decision to annul the first round of voting in the country’s December 2024 presidential election over supposed foreign interference. Vance suggested that the ruling was politically motivated, and made because things did not “go to plan” in the EU nation. …
“Of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration,” Vance also remarked.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Vance similarly claimed that mainstream parties in the EU are “kind of terrified of their own people.” He criticized attempts to dismiss dissenting viewpoints as somehow the result of “misinformation.”
“If your democratic society can be taken down by $200,000 of social media ads, then you should think seriously about how strong your grip on or how strong your understanding of the will of the people actually is,” he argued.
Aside from the controversy in Romania, he also referenced the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which is considered extremist by the establishment. …
“I heard his speech and he talked about freedom of speech and I think it’s true. In Europe they’re losing their wonderful right of freedom of speech,” Trump added.
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