Vice President JD Vance minced no words in his Friday address at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, putting various European nations on blast for their heavy-handed suppression of political movements and ideas unfavorable to their respective ruling classes; for their dismissal of citizens’ concerns and common sense; for their routine attacks on religious liberties; and for their ruinous mass migration policies.
“The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia. It’s not China. It’s not any other external actor,” said Vance. “What I worry about is the threat from within.”
Vance’s speech clearly struck a chord, prompting German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, a member of the Social Democratic Party, to spend some of his time onstage refuting the suggestion that democracy and free speech are on the decline in his and other European nations.
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