If Vance's Munich speech were to be regarded as a certain clamp clipping the era between the beginning of Russia's confrontation with the West, which, though it had begun earlier, was announced publically in Munich, it should be stressed that The Russian leader could present say with satisfaction that the West, whose unity he tried to break up with his speech, is in a sense gone.
This is 18 years after his speech to the same city and the Vice president of the United States is coming to the same conference and It focuses on expressing a litany of resentment or, as others say, insulting Europe.
This happened not only as a consequence of the ideological divided between the United States and Europe. The U.S. feels besides emboldened by the condition of Europe. This is evidenced by hard economical data. In 2007, the GDP of the European Union was, according to planet Bank data, 14 trillion dollars and was minimally lower than that of the United States. In 2023, US GDP stood at 27 trillion dollars, while EU GDP besides increased, but is only 18 trillion dollars. Even if you number the UK, which is over 3 trillion dollars in GDP, you can clearly see that the United States' advantage is increasing. Something in Europe evidently doesn't work.
The main charge against Vance, aside from his many misconceptions to which we will return, is that he participated in the Munich safety Conference alternatively than talking about security.
Only something in Europe doesn't work. For 18 years she was pretending.
First that she had not heard Vladimir Putin's announcements and then pretended not to see his politics. any countries, specified as Germany, have seen but only an chance to do business Even erstwhile these interests in Nord Stream were straight hitting the safety of German allies.
PAP/EP/GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOLVladimir Putin
The sobering brought neither Russian assault on Ukraine in 2014 nor even the 2022 one. Not counting respective countries, headed by Poland, European states' arms spending is increasing at specified a pathetic pace that it is hard to wonder that the EU is being treated with contempt not only by the Russians but besides by Americans.
The problem is that Vance, alternatively of talking about it all, focused on lamenting that this is Europe's democracy being threatened. The level of perversion, given that he is vice president with Donald Trump, who, having lost the 2020 election, refused to quit power and surely supported the effort of a coup, which was the attack of his supporters on the Capitol on 6 January 2021, is remarkable.
Vance himself, unlike Trump, called in 2016 "potential Hitler" and "moral disaster". The fact that in Munich present he is acting as Trump's chief propagandist in the European section should most likely not surprise. Thus it is with those who, having abandoned the old alliances, must prove faithfulness, that erstwhile they have received the chief's favor, they effort to be the most faithful of the faithful.
However, aside from Vance, who, as it all points out, is simply a conformist without rules, 1 might ask how it is possible that the American liberal elite, alternatively of bringing Trump to justice for what he did on January 6, decided to focus on how he booked the money, who paid for the silence of porn stars Stormy Daniels. Something evidently doesn't work in the United States either. Especially among liberal elites in the United States.
The question, of course, is whether the Vice president of the United States should behave in a tactful manner and whether he can behave in a non-graduate manner. Vance surely took besides much.
The verse's over. Did Vance lie? Yes, it is. But not quite.
However, resenting Vance, it is hard not to callback many European statements, including Polish politicians on Trump. Someone will say that the difference is fundamental due to the fact that European politicians were telling the fact about Trump and Vance is lying about Europe. Apart from whether Vance is simply lying (about it in a moment) or – as demagogues usually do – he draws lying conclusions from actual premises, the very aspect of diplomacy itself is obvious. Its primary rule is not truth, but effectiveness and reciprocity. In a word, we may not like what Vance said, but unfortunately, if you usage the words of Andrew Lepper, Versailles is over. but first on our side of the Atlantic.
Ben Gray/Associated Press/East News / East NewsDonald Trump and J.D. Vance
So you gotta look at this. whether Vance was lying. Yes, it is. But not quite.. The answer is not as simple as his critics want. The Vice president stated that Europe was moving distant from democracy and he cited in this context an example of the cancelled first circular of presidential elections in Romania, in which he was victorious by the celebrated pro-Russian statements of Calin Georgescu and the enthusiasm with which this met in the European elite.
The problem is that everything points to the fact that the elections in Romania have been cancelled on the basis of very shaky grounds and unfortunately contrary to the constitution, which does not supply for any cancellation procedure at all. The evidence of Russian interference proved in turn a very dubious attempt. The next election will take place in May. Georgescu, as all points out, will besides win in them.
The fundamental difference between me and Vance is that Vance will most likely be happy about Georgesc’s victory, while it will upset me. The question Vance raised, speaking of the Romanian elections, can be considered an chance to reflect, or do liberal elites know how to fight populists? That doesn't necessarily happen, I wrote only a week ago in Oneta.
J.D. Vance besides talked about censorship, quoting examples of it, all of which afraid the liberal side. The U.S. vice president did not hesitate to talk about censorship on the part of the right (in Poland – under the regulation of the Law and Justice in the public media – leading to the transformation of these media into propaganda barkers), about lies that this 1 uses and romance with extremism. Ba – seemed to defend the right to disinformation. Only that Vance's false answers and the wider – modern right – to the questions confronting us present do not invalidate the questions the right asks.
Vance’s speech is an emergency signal — Hannibal at the gates
So is there, as Vance claims, specified a thing as liberal censorship? It is adequate to remember how 12-13 years ago everyone who spoke of the Russian threat was immediately referred to as a right-winger (which I experienced myself) and thrown beyond the brackets of a "civilised debate" to say that, unfortunately, it is. Just remember how a year and a half ago the liberal side challenged the supporters of the wall on the border with Belarus from fascists, so that now erstwhile the wall is strengthened by Donald Tusk's government, silence, or expansion of the wall praise. And you can tell something's wrong. On the liberal side.
One can scope out to the way people were treated on the liberal side of those who said that uncontrolled migration would blow up European – that's right – liberalism. Migration, if you mention to Lenin's celebrated words about capitalists who will sale to the Bolsheviks the line on which they will be hanged, was just that rope. It is indeed remarkable that European liberals, like independence, have defended what paves the way for their top enemies to rule.
When I compose this comment from a liberal point of view, I reluctantly admit Vance. but I owe him one.
This is due to the fact that present it is possible to say, and above all, to Trump, that the threat of utmost right-wing governments is no longer something that can only be reacted to by hiding one's head in the sand and eliminating from the debate anyone who dares, being a liberal, at the same time not having his eyes wide closed. Vance’s speech is like an emergency signal — Hannibal at the gates.
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