If Europe expected a conference on conciliatory security, it was wrong. TO Monk of the world of the world meet but the US vice -president JD Vance exploit the opportunity, as some American newspapers point out, to beat hard against the Old Continent. Against his migratory policies. Against his politically correct. Against culture that risks endangering freedom of speech.
The war in Ukraine
It was a hard speech, that of Vance. Of course: the US have ensured that no negotiation with Russia will be signed without involving the European Union and that it is intended to guarantee “Kiev’s long -term independence”, but between saying and doing there is the middle Atlantic Ocean. Because while Europe continued to insist on Ukrainian resistance, Trump Meanwhile, he telephoned twice in Moscow, agreed with Putin to see himself in Saudi Arabia, forced Kiev to give up Crimea, to promise rare lands to repay military supplies and slammed the NATO door to Zelensky. All without minimally involve neither Macron nor Scholz nor less than less Ursula von der leyen. As reiterated yesterday on several occasions, the US of The Donald They do not intend to take the military expenses of the European Championships who are called to increase investments, to take “a step forward” while “America focuses on the areas of the world in great danger”. Translated: do vobiswe are not interested in us anymore.
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“Freedom in retreat”
The frontal attack, however, Vance has reserved it to freedom of speech, the mainstream, to migrants. “The threat that worries me most about Europe is not Russia, it is not China, it is no other external actor; what worries me It is the threat from the insidethe removal of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America “. And again: “In Great Britain and throughout Europe, I fear, freedom of speech is in retreat. Innovation or creativity cannot be imposed, just as people cannot be forced to think, what to hear or what to believe, and we believe that these things are certainly connected. And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, sometimes it is not so clear what happened to some of the winners of the Cold War “.
The US vice -president also made examples, very precise. Starting from the elections in Romania who were canceled only because he had won a philorusso, without any defender of European democracy having dared to protest. “There was a European commissioner who recently seemed happy that the Romanian government had just canceled an entire election. A similar thing could happen in Germany -added Vance -. Now, these contemptuous statements are shocking for American ears. For years we have been said that everything we finance and support is in the name of our shared democratic values; Everything, from our policy on Ukraine to digital censorshipis presented as a defense of democracy. But when we see European courts cancel elections and high officials threaten to cancel others, we should ask ourselves if we are respecting sufficiently high standards “. The excuse of the Russian influence on Tik Tok? Balle, had already said Vance in an interview with the WSJ: “If your democratic society can be destroyed by $ 200 thousand of advertising on social media, then you should seriously reflect on how strong your socket is or how strong your understanding of the will is of the people “.
The Romanian one is not the only example. Vance criticized the German police blitz “against citizens suspected of having published Anti-feminist comments Online as part of the fight against misogyny on the Internet ‘”. Or the condemnation of Sweden to the activist who took part in the bonfires of the Koran. Or the sentence in the United Kingdom against a man “accused with an hateful crime of having violated the protection areas around the clinics for abortion, a man who had placed himself at a certain distance from the clinic and was praying in silence without giving annoyance to none “. A real censorship that Europe would, however, “copied” by the same states united with Biden.
Immigration
Vance has slapped the EU also on the dangerous drift that is leading to European de-industrialization. But the crucial theme is and remains that of migration. The argument that for too long European politicians have snubbed, limiting the will of the people who asked for more borders protection: “Today one in 5 person comes from abroad, it is similar in the USA, the number of migrants who entered the EU doubled in 2021 – he said – Europe must change the course of immigration “. JD Vance also invited German politicians to collaborate with the AFD to solve the problem.
Finally, there were references to Elon Musk. As known, Europe complains about the interference of the magnate in European politics, in particular in Germany, where he expressly supported the Afd for the next elections. Meanwhile, Vance has recalled that Musk never speaks in the name of Trump, also on the theme of migrants, even if “is right” when he claims that the EU countries must stop bringing masses of immigrants. And then, he concluded, the EU must put his soul in peace: “If American democracy has been able to survive 10 years of reproaches of Crasta Thunbergyou guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk“.