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If you are afraid of the voices, the opinions and the conscience that guide your very own people … If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you, nor for that matter is there anything you can do for the American people.”
Vance said
It was very nice to hear Vance’s very strong speech. It was a public caning, I can’t call it anything else.”
The speech drew effusive praise on Russian state TV, where a correspondent, Asya Emelyanova, said on RossiyaIf I understood him correctly, he is comparing conditions in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regimes,
Pistorius saidFor years we have been told 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 defence of democracy, but when we see European courts cancelling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others we ought to ask ourselves if we are holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard.”
Vance saidOf all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration.”
In remarks that will delight the German far right days before elections there, Vance said
Listening to that speech, they try to pick a fight with us and we don’t want to a pick a fight with our friends,
Kallas said at the Munich eventWhat I worry about is the threat from within,
Vance saidHow many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilisation in a new direction?”
he askedThere is a new sheriff in town.” ... Democracy will not survive if their people’s concerns are deemed invalid or even worse not worth being considered.”
Vance said of Donald Trump’s re-election ... He saidIt is clear that the new American administration holds a worldview that is very different from our own. One that shows no regard for established rules, for partnerships or for the trust that has been built over time. But I am convinced that it is not in the interest of the international community for this worldview to become the dominant paradigm.”
He saidSo what I heard was a very hypocritical lecture where … there is a lot of things you could agree with in the speech, but the hypocrisy was unbelievable,
Moulton said
I walked away, to be honest, feeling like I am sorry for the continent of Europe, and I’m sorry for a significant population of America, maybe the majority of America, who I think will be disappointed with that speech,
Houlahan said
I think alliances and partnerships, which are one of our core strength — the foundation of those should be when we focus on our shared values that we have in common, not policing or criticizing each other’s domestic politics, particularly not in policing each other’s domestic politics when our own house is not in order,
Crow said
It was stunning in it failing to address the urgent concerns that are at the forefront of the European mind,
Richard Blumenthal, a Democratic senator from Connecticut, said in an interviewI didn’t get the sense he came today to talk about Ukraine which is at the top of everybody’s list here but rather to comment on things like freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and those sorts of shared values between Europe and the United States,
Cornyn said in an interview
Watch [Vance] lecture EUROCRATS at the Munich Security Conference on AMERICA FIRST,
said Mast, who is also at Munich
JD was spot on, ... and I know his speech resonated with millions of Europeans who are trying to regain control of their sovereignty and protect their way of life.”
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The new American administration has a very different world view to ours,
Steinmeier said
Unfortunately, the will of voters has been ignored by a lot of our European friends"
Vance told the Wall Street JournalThere is a new sheriff in town under Donald Trump's leadership,
said Vance in a speech that stunned the room, and was later condemned as "unacceptable" by German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius