Summary

At the Munich Security Conference, JD Vance criticized European leaders for suppressing free speech, mishandling migration, and ignoring populist concerns.

He questioned whether Europe’s values still aligned with America’s and warned of a “threat from within,” rather than Russia or China.

His speech, which largely avoided discussing Ukraine, shocked attendees and drew condemnation from EU and German officials but was praised by Russian state media.

Vance’s private meeting with Germany’s far-right AfD leader and his dismissal of mainstream politicians further deepened tensions between the U.S. and Europe.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 months ago

    America is a big dumb golem used to do the violent bidding of whoever is able to control it - mainly Israel and Russia.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    suppressing free speech

    Shutting out far-right racists and literal foreign agitators

    mishandling migration

    Racism

    and ignoring populist concerns

    More racism

    Feels like the New Axis is starting to take tangible shape.

    • @[email protected]
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      -62 months ago

      mishandling migration

      Racism

      Are you calling it racism because Vance said it, or would you claim that anyone who thinks migration in Europe has been mishandled is racist?

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        Perhaps some genuine criticism could be levied at the specifics of their immigration policy, but this is JD Vance, that’s not what he’s here for.

        When he talks about “shared values” and “what you are fighting for” he’s talking about white Christian dominance in Europe and defending it with the sword. The far right has long seen Europe as a failure of progressive decadence and moral weakness and this speech was a blatant expression of that.

        That is why the far right rejects European countries and cozies up to Russia, because the American conservative and the Russian nationalist have quite a lot of “shared values.”

  • @[email protected]
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    92 months ago

    Fuck off with that BS. We don’t need you authoritarians to illegitimise our leaders, insert a racism wedge between us and misrepresent what our “populous” wants. We know that our values are not aligned with a conservative, VP-to-fucking-trump, Putin’s puppet, project 2025 POS. And we don’t need to look for a “threat of within” when we need to stand united against russia and now US influence.

    When AfD neo nazis, the richest asshole in the world, the US leadership, Putin and north Korea all praise and support each other we can see through your BS.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 months ago

    “Vance leaves the US and thinks the rest of the world thinks of highly of him as his brain-dead countrymen do.”

    He’s such a fucking buffoon.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 months ago

    “blistering attack” is one way to say it, I’d say bigoted rambling is better way to describe it

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    42 months ago

    That dipshit has no right to criticize anyone.

    This is the guy who is an apologist to anti-Indian hate speech… while being married to an ethnic Indian.

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      12 months ago

      He’s nothing more than a performer now. Ask yourself every time: who is he performing for right now that he believes will increase his political power? I’m not sure why he wants power. He wouldn’t know what to do with it.

  • sircac
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    42 months ago

    I think this people have long already disqualified their ability to speech anything worth of coherent value, why keep listening them or take note of their words? They do not follow the rules of that game, is not possible to play on the same terms so that battleground is a distraction at best, a cancer at worst.

    Don’t feed the troll, don’t support the bully.

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      12 months ago

      Lol is this a tongue in cheek self aware comment? I had to start and restart each sentence a few times.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 months ago

    “The mice in fact are tyrannical oppressors for not opening the door to listen to what the fox has to say!” - JD Vance

    Nope, mister G.O.Pudge, we do not have to include Nazis.

  • @[email protected]
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    22 months ago

    I want to join in the take of “What an out-of-touch moron” but I honestly think Germany might be fucked. Meetings with AfD behind closed doors and no one in the German government appearing to have a spine to do anything about it indicates that Germany is just the next in line to slide slowly back into fascism.

    France is not far behind, either.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 months ago

    Dear Goober-Veep,

    The threat from within is the Nazis, not the people who refuse to listen to the Nazis. They’ve been handling Nazis longer than you’ve been alive. Shut your fucking pizza pie hole.

  • Ech
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    12 months ago

    “Blistering” suggests it had merit.