Vice -President JD Vance brought his cultural war to Europe on Friday and warned that the greatest threat did not come from China or Russia, but from the inside when he delivered a sizzling attack on what he said that the continent of his traditional values was.
Vance said that free speech and democratic institutions were eroded in a speech to Munich's security conference.
He accused European politicians of forcing people to close social media accounts, closed the arrest of a British man for praying in the vicinity of an abortion clinic and urged leaders to do more to steal illegal immigration .
“Europe stands for many challenges, but the crisis that this continent is currently confronted with, the crisis that I believe we are all confronted together is one of our own making,” he said.
“If you run out of fear of your own voters, there is nothing that America can do for you, nor is there something that you can do for the American people who have chosen me and chosen President Trump.”
If his public from European VIPs had expected VANCE to discuss the future of the war in Ukraine, the threat of AI or the rise of China, they were for a shock.
Some shifted in their seats while attacking European politicians.
He accused officials of the European Union of 'Canceling elections and asked whether' we are sticking to a suitable higher standard '.
Vice President JD Vance took European leaders on their own backyard with a fiery speech at the Munich Safety Conference on Friday afternoon
Vance's public from European VIPs was given about democracy and freedom of expression
“There is a new sheriff in the city,” he said referring to President Donald Trump. “We can't agree with your opinion, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it on the public square.”
'Although the Trump government is very concerned with European security and believes that we can achieve a reasonable arrangement between Russia and Ukraine, and we also believe that it is important for Europe to get up in a large way in the coming years to step.
'The biggest threat to Europe is not external – it is internal. A retreat from his own fundamental values, values shared with the US '
He gave his speech at a time of world, because the established world order threatens to crumble under Putin's attack on Ukraine.
Vance is expected to meet Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky later on Friday, at the end of his five -day trip to Europe. Their meeting was delayed because the plane from State Secretary Marco Rubio had to return to Washington after a mechanical problem on the way to the conference.
Trump insists on an end to the conflict and puts pressure on both parties to find an arrangement.
Trump has years of support for Ukraine with a 90 -minute telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, conversations between Moscow and Washington.
His Defense Minister Pete Hegseeth said that Ukraine could not keep his limits from before 2014 and would not be admitted to NATO, comments he had to walk back quickly.
Vice-president JD Vance, bottom right, and Secretary-General Mark Rutte, behind left, come to each other during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Security Conference in Munich in Munich, Germany, Friday
The comments are angry with European leaders who quickly pushed back and repeated that Ukraine was on their way to NATO membership and insist that Ukraine should be part of any conversations.
“The Ukraine war must end,” Trump told reporters on Thursday. 'Young people are killed at levels that nobody has seen since the Second World War. And it's a ridiculous war. '
Trump is not worried about accusations that he is selling and outlines Ukraine instead his proposals such as the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that is necessary after three years of war.
Vance himself seemed to go further than Trump in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, which suggests that military action could be used to put pressure on Putin.
“There are economic aids for leverage, there are of course military aids for leverage,” the US to be able to use Putin, VANCE told the newspaper.
On Friday morning he insisted that European countries should spend more on defense.
“NATO is of course a very important military alliance that we are the most important part of,” he said prior to a meeting with NATO Secretary -General Mark Rutte.
'But we want to ensure that NATO was actually built for the future, and we think Eastern Asia. '
