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If you are running in fear of your own voters, ... there is nothing America can do for you.”
If I understood him correctly, he is comparing parts of Europe with authoritarian regimes – this is not acceptable,
he said, drawing sustained applause While the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, and we also believe that it’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defence,
There is no room for firewalls,
Mr Vance said, bringing some gasps in the hall 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, ... 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.”
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,
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,
I heard his speech, and he talked about freedom of speech,
It’s an incredibly controversial thing for him to do,
said Kristine Berzina, the managing director of the German Marshall Fund’s Geostrategy North, who was at the Munich Security Conference We don’t need to see him, he won’t be chancellor long,
one former US official told Politico of the Vance team’s approach He’s going to have to do what he has to do,
Trump said of Zelenskyy agreeing to a deal You need democratic mandates to accomplish anything of value in the coming years,
It is personal and it is political in terms of far-right political alignment,
Burkas, girls in headscarves, knife-wielding men on government benefits and other good-for-nothing people are not going to ensure our prosperity, our economic growth and our social welfare system,
Weidel said — comments that outraged many in Germany People really need to get behind AfD, otherwise things are going to get very, very much worse in Germany,
Musk said in a conversation with Weidel on X last month I don’t agree with him that what’s happening in Ukraine, what’s happening in Russia, what’s happening in China is less important than the presumed loss of freedom of speech in Europe,
He speaks as though we are not focused on immigration in Europe,
I expressly reject what US Vice President Vance said at the Munich Security Conference, ... From the experience of National Socialism, the democratic parties in Germany have a common consensus: this is the firewall against extreme right-wing parties.”
said Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, in a post on X Listening to that speech, they try to pick a fight with us and we don’t want to pick a fight with our friends,
said Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, at the Munich event Trust me, I say this with all humor, if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg's scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk,
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