Vice President JD Vance continues to prove that he is absolutely the right man for the job and an excellent choice made by President Donald Trump during the presidential election.
The latest example of his fitness for duty comes from a speech he delivered to European leaders where he stated that censorship in the European Union was a larger threat to its existence than Russia.
“The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China. It’s not any other external actor,” he went on to tell attendees at the Munich Security Conference. “What I worry about is the threat from within the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.”
Vance then called out Thierry Breton, former European Commissioner, who stated in January that if the right-wing AfD party in Germany wins elections in the country, the results would then go the way of Romania.
“These cavalier statements are shocking to American ears,” Vance stated.
“For years we’ve been told that everything we fund and support is in the name of our shared democratic values. Everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defense of democracy. But when we see European courts canceling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we’re holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard,” he explained.
“Romania annulled the results of its December presidential election, because President Klaus Iohannis declassified intelligence reports alleging a Russian influence campaign on social media to the benefit of Calin Georgescu, the dark horse candidate who won the most votes,” Fox News reported.
“You can believe it’s wrong for Russia to buy social media advertisements to influence your elections. We certainly do. You can condemn it on the world stage, even. But if your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with,” the article said.
The vice president then went on to call out those who organized the conference in Munich, who he said “banned lawmakers representing populist parties on both the left and the right from participating in these conversations.”
Individuals in charge of the event banned any representatives from the far-right Alternative for Germany party, along with a newly founded group that is left-populist known as Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance. The reason? Christopher Heusgen, chairman of the MSC, said they were banned from the event due to rejecting the conference’s principle of “peace through dialogue.”
He then revealed that the straw that broke the camel’s back was when lawmakers who are with those parties got up and walked out of the room when Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, addressed Germany’s parliament last year.
“To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation,’ who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion or, God forbid, vote a different way, or even worse, win an election,” Vance said.
He also explained that Europe has forgotten the lessons it learned during both the Cold War and Soviet Union years concerning censorship policies.
“Within living memory of many of you in this room, the Cold War positioned defenders of democracy against much more tyrannical forces on this continent. And consider the side in that fight that censored dissidents, that closed churches, that canceled elections,” Vance remarked.
“Unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it’s sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War’s winners. I look to Brussels, where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they’ve judged to be ‘hateful content’ or to this very country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of ‘combating misogyny on the internet,” the vice president said.
Fox then said, “Vance recounted Adam Smith Connor, who was found guilty in October of breaching the local government’s Public Spaces Protection Order, after he stood outside an abortion facility nearly two years ago with his head bowed in silent prayer.”
The U.K. law says that anyone who is within a 200 meter buffer zone at an abortion clinic — or as we call them around here, “murder mills” — is forbidden from trying to influence a person’s decision as to whether or not to go through the murder of their pre-born child. Homes located within the buffer zone — 200 meters — are not allowed to hang signs outside or shout any sort of anti-abortion slogans that can be heard in range of the clinic.
In other words, the U.K. is going out of its way to ensure as many babies are murdered as possible without anyone trying to appeal to the conscience of the mother’s carrying out this evil deed. Sick.
European leaders were shocked with Vance’s speech because it was far from what they were expecting him to talk about. Originally, these folks had thought the vice president was going to reveal more details about Trump’s plan for peace between Ukraine and Russia and what actions they should take to strengthen the NATO alliance.
“I’m sure you all came here prepared to talk about how exactly you intend to increase defense spending over the next few years, in line with some new target,” the vice president said. “I’ve heard a lot about what you need to defend yourselves from, and of course that’s important. But what has seemed a little bit less clear to me, and certainly I think to many of the citizens of Europe, is what exactly it is that you’re defending yourselves for.”
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