The US Vice President JD Vance warned US European allies at a conference in Munich, Germany, about a “threat from within”, referring to immigration levels that currently assimilate those nations.
The United States vice president, JD Vance, warned European allies who attend the security conference in the German city of Munich against “the threat from within” and said that governments in that region are exercising extreme censorship and have not managed to properly control “migration out of control.”
“The threat that worries me the most with respect to Europe is not Russia, it is not China, it is not any other external actor,” he said on Friday. “What worries me is the threat from within, the European decline of some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.”
Vance lashed out at Romania, an allied NATO, for his recent cancellation of the results of the presidential elections due to the evidence of Russian misinformation.
“If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it was not very strong to start,” he said. “I would ask my European friends to place themselves in a certain perspective.”
He also seemed to express his support to the right -wing parties who have been forbidden to join the governments of Europe, saying: “Democracy is based on the sacred principle that the voice of the people imports. There is no place for firewalls. ”
Vance said that all the urgent challenges faced by Europe and the United States “there is nothing more urgent than migration.”
He blamed the “series of conscious decisions taken by politicians from all over the contine .
The US vice president said that Brussels had closed social networks for content that encouraged hatred, and criticized Germany for what he described as raids against his own citizens for publishing antipheminist comments, Sweden for condemning a Christian activist and the United Kingdom for backward in terms of religious rights.
The Trump administration is “very concerned about European security and believes that we can reach A reasonable agreement between Russia and Ukraine”Said Vance. “And we also believe that it is important in the coming years for Europe to step forward to a large extent to guarantee its own defense.”
After the speech, the German defense minister, Boris Pistorius, rejected the characterization made by Vance of European policies.
“If I understand you well, you are comparing the conditions in some parts of Europe with those of the authoritarian regions, that is not acceptable,” Pistorius settled.
Vance's comments are “an effort to turn the script” about Europe's concerns about American democracy, said Kristine Berzina, general director of GMF Geostrategy North.
“It is surprising that NATO has not been mentioned or talked about Ukraine. On the other hand, it was the presentation of a right -wing vision of democracy days before the German elections, ”he told the Voice of America.