A muscular American speech opened the Munich Conference on Security. Vice-President JD VANCE TECE, this Friday, February 14, on Friday, February 14, on its European allies, declaring in particular that freedom of expression “decreases” in Europe. He said that Donald Trump’s administration “will fight” to “defend” freedom of expression, summarizing his “offer”: “In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town.”
Long awaited on the initiative of Donald Trump vis-à-vis the conflict in Ukraine, the American vice-president barely touched the subject, surprising his audience by devoting most of his speech to criticizing European countries on the ” decline “of” freedom of expression “.
More than “Russia”, “China” or “another external actor”, he said, “what worries me is the threat of the interior, the decline of Europe by relation to some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America “.
He notably mentioned the case of Romania, where the first round of the presidential election was canceled by the Constitutional Court. The far -right candidate Calin Georgescu had arrived against all expectations at the top of the election with more than 20 % of the votes, campaigning mainly on the Chinese platform Tiktok. The decision to cancel this election was made “on the basis of the weak suspicions of an intelligence agency,” said JD Vance, denouncing “enormous pressure (on Romania) of its continental neighbors”. If “your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars in digital advertising from a foreign country, then it was not very strong,” he said for her “European friends”.
With Donald Trump, there is a “new sheriff in town”
He also targeted the “very dear friends” of the United Kingdom, where “the regression of rights of conscience” attacks according to him to the “fundamental freedoms of religious British”. JD VANCE, who highlights his Christian faith as a private and political compass, has spoken out against exceptions to prohibitions, even in the event of rape or incest.
“Authorizing our citizens to express their opinion” will make democracies “even stronger”, he said, accusing the organizers of having prohibited access to the Munich conference of elected officials of “populist parties”.
Under the direction of “Sheriff” Donald Trump, “we may disagree with your opinions but we will fight to defend your right to express them in public space, whether you agree or not”, He still said.
Vice-President JD Vance, who has also enjoined Europe to strengthen its defense capacities to allow Washington to focus on threats in the rest of the world, called the old continent to “change course” in front of the ‘Immigration, in the aftermath of the Arail car attack in Munich, whose suspect is an Afghan asylum seeker. Citing the example of this attack, the American official launched: “How many times do we have to undergo these appalling setbacks before changing CAP […] ? No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open valves to millions of uncontrolled immigrants “.” Mass migrations “are the” most urgent “problem with which all countries are confronted, it was He added