I told you we were coming to save Europe. Yesterday, Politico ran a shocking story headlined, “
Vance brings a wrecking ball to diplomatic gathering in Munich.” It described Vice-President Wrecking Ball’s speech yesterday at the annual Munich Security Conference, which is like Davos for European security policy. My first thought was, the headline
should have been, “United States Has a Vice President Who Can Give a Coherent Speech.” I mean, Vance didn’t even mention
the passage of time once.
CLIP: Vance roasts Europeans at their annual military-industrial security conference (18:45).
If you prefer, read Vance’s remarkable “wrecking ball” address for yourself, courtesy of the UK Spectator (and only the Spectator), which published the full transcript headlined, “
Read: J.D. Vance’s full speech on the decline of Europe.”
The attendees probably expected
something different from last year’s speech by Kamala Harris, ahem, but I bet they never expected
this. Instead of the usual dish of asiatic fearmongering—
Russia, Russia, Russia, with a side of
China, China, China—Vance flipped the script and served them something they’d never tasted:
bitter truth.
Vance informed the shocked EU delegates, “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. What I worry about most is
the threat from within.”
You could practically hear the shocked and
deeply offended gasps when he explicitly named
Europe’s elites as the real security risk—not Putin, not Xi, but the unelected bureaucrats, the censors, the election tamperers, and the speech police
inside their own governments.
Vance came with receipts: he cited example after example of European attacks on free speech and free elections. He mentioned people arrested for silent prayer outside abortion clinics, those jailed for complaining about uncontrolled migration, free elections overturned on thin evidence of “Russian interference,” and of course, all the recent anguish over Elon Musk’s support for a particular populist political party in Germany.
Europe’s leaders love to label their critics as threats to democracy—but democracy’s biggest threat is
Europe’s leaders.
Effeminate EU officials rushed to protest Vance’s claims, but the protests only proved the claims were true. Europe’s anti-democratic tailspin is well-known. For example, consider just
one headline from the New York Times, published a year ago:
In other words, Vance scolded the astonished audience that, regarding security threats to Europe,
the call is coming from inside the house. More simply:
they threaten Europe’s security, not Russia, not China, not “disinformation” or even “misinformation.” The real threat is a bloated bureaucracy that silences speech, politicians who erase elections, and entrenched elites terrified by their
own electorate.
Vance shattered their safe, sacrosanct security narrative, by pointing out what was obvious to everyone except the effete officials in the room: Europe’s biggest crisis isn’t coming from Moscow or Beijing—it’s coming from Brussels, Berlin, and London. The bureaucrats, censors, and election meddlers masquerading as defenders of democracy are the ones actually dismantling freedom— with rusty pliers.
Vance’s Munich roast has set the continent aflame. “No one is talking about anything else,” a senior Eastern European official told Politico. A former senior U.S. diplomat told the paper, “It could be this is the one wake-up call that actually wakes Europe up.”
A former House Democratic staffer attending the conference whined, “It’s not
Russia influencing your elections,
you are? He was blaming the victim.” He added, incredulous,
“What the f—k was that? I had my mouth open in a room full of people with their mouth open.” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius grumbled, “If I understood him correctly, he is comparing parts of Europe with authoritarian regimes. This is not acceptable.”
Boris Pistorius overlooked the dripping irony of labeling Vance’s free-speech diatribe as
unacceptable speech. A
self-own.
Just as Trump has thrown the U.S.’s Deep State and its Democrat operatives into disarray, he is now dismantling, disrupting, and destabilizing Europe’s pampered political class. In a single week, Trump’s team told a gaping-mouthed Europe that: your proxy war is over, your free military protection is about to expire, your trade scam is up, and, brace yourselves—Washington now considers you a bigger threat to democracy than Russia or China.
The Financial Times, Thursday:
A wrecking ball, indeed.
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