Vice President J.D. Vance warned European leaders in Munich the greatest challenges threatening democracy today are the internal impulses of western governments to dismiss constituent frustrations over unchecked immigration and their moves to censor dissident speech.
“While the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine,” Vance said, “the threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe … is the threat from within.”
The vice president characterized the threat at the Munich Security Conference as “the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.”
