Vance’s offensive in Munich shows the growing transatlantic gulf
FirstpostOne can’t be a zealous interventionist on borrowed bullion, subsidised military expenditure, reduced weapons outlay, and diminishing heft. This was the state of teary-eyed Christoph Heusgen, the Munich Security Conference Chairman, and a former Angela Merkel aide, when he said: “Our common values are not so common anymore.” US Vice President JD Vance’s speech at the premier security gathering is arguably the most consequential since Vladimir Putin’s 2007 speech that raised warning bells on NATO expansion and Moscow’s unwillingness to play by unilateral US diktats. Nothing Lasts Forever Naive idealism, myopia, and hoping to find succour in the zealotry of ‘End of History’, is a weak nostrum passed as panacea. To suppose that it can be projected indefinitely into the future is an illusion, however worthy and well intentioned.” Kiev Quagmire The former ‘bloodlands’ and killing fields of Europe become safe, secure, and prosperous only on the back of American post-war reconstruction aid and security guarantees to contain the Soviet sphere of influence.
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Column: Vance is right that Europe’s values are no longer the same as America’s
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The Munich reckoning: How transatlantic ties are fraying from both sides
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The Munich reckoning: How transatlantic ties are fraying from both sides
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Fury as JD Vance attacks European leaders in anti-immigration rant at Munich conference
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'New sheriff in the town': Vance chastises European leaders at Munich conference over 'threat from within'
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‘Disgust’: Vance’s ‘disturbing’ speech alarms Europe, sparks foreign policy fears
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US Vice President Vance warns Europe of threats 'from within', retreat from 'fundamental values'
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Vance turns on European allies in blistering speech that downplayed threats from Russia and China
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