European Vans ask to stop

On Friday, European Vice President JD Vance told the European leaders that the biggest security threat was not the military aggression from Russia or China, or to interfere in the elections from Moscow. Instead, he said, this was what he called “the enemy inside” – their repression of the protests of abortion and other forms of freedom of expression and engaging in parties that are extreme.

The amazing and silent title was amazed by hundreds of attendees at the Munich Security Conference, a forum where politicians of the highest level, diplomats and analysts expected to hear the Trump administration plans to end the war in Ukraine and Europe’s defense against the increasing Russian threat in the future.

Instead, the Vice President presented what may be a preview of a new type of relationship across the Atlantic Ocean during the era of Mr. Trump-one of them is not based on post-war ties from allied governments, but on relations with political parties that were sharing the same day of the common approach to migration and identity And online speech.

Mr. Vans devoted his German hosts, who will elect a new consultant at the end of next week, and informed them of their downfall Objections To work with a party often discover the banners of the banned Nazism and have been avoided by the government as a result.

It was an extraordinary intervention in the local policy of a democratic American ally, and it brought some moments in the hall.

The party, the alternative to Germany or AFD, did not mention the name, but he pointed directly to a long -term agreement by the main German politicians to freeze the group, which was parts of it. Officially It also extremes German intelligence.

“There is no room for protection walls,” said Mr. Vans near the end of his speech.

AFD rose to second place in opinion polls with its call to eliminate immigration, and its members have a The date of the use of the Nazi language And anti -Semitic and racist comments, along with Plots To overthrow the federal government.

Mr. Vans did not notice that the luggage, and he did not mention any extremist elements of the anti -immigration political parties. Without naming any parties specifically, AFD and its counterparts all over Europe were thrown as legitimate shipments of voters anger at millions of refugees who entered the European Union from the Middle East, Africa and other places over the past decade.

On Friday, he met with Alice Widel, AFD candidate, as well as other German leaders.

German leaders, through most party lines, have taken the speech. They immediately refused to suggest Mr. Vance that they should drop the protection wall against AFD, referring to the previous comments by AFD members to support national socialists, or Nazis.

“This is our work.” “My message to the American administration is: German extremists who explicitly refer to national socialism – part of AFD – it is clear that the United States against the United States that liberated us from national socialism.”

Boris Petsorius, German Defense Minister and a member of the ruling social Democrats, has deviated from his planned speech on Friday afternoon to reprimand Mr. Vans.

“If you understand it properly, it compares parts of Europe to authoritarian regimes. This is unacceptable,” said Mr. Pistorius, drawing a sustainable applause. “This is not Europe, not democracy, where I live.”

Germany was the most successful European power in closing its hard right -wing party outside power, along with France, where a group of competing parties participated in the strategic vote last summer to deprive the national gathering that left the parliamentary majority.

Other protection walls fell throughout Europe, including in Hollandand Hungary and Italy. In Austria, the hard right -wing Freedom Party was part of the federal alliances and appears to be ready to lead its next government, before negotiations with a The right -wing party has collapsed this week.

Mr. Vans is now the second number of the Trump administration that tried to get rid of the efforts made to isolate away from the German elections next Sunday, by trying to strengthen AFD.

Billionaire Illon Musk, Supreme Adviser to Mr. Trump, supported AFD late last year in a post on social media. He publicly conducted an interview with the adviser’s candidate, Is it not.

in Title for party members this monthMr. Musk said Germany “focuses a lot on the past guilt.” This was a clear indication of Hitler’s long shadow, who is still dominating the prevailing German policy, including narrow legal restrictions against the Nazi language.

In his speech, Mr. Vance seemed to gather these restrictions in a long list of what he called European deviations from the values ​​and democratic attacks on freedom of expression.

Mr. Vans said that these failures included efforts to restrict wrong information and other content on social media, and the laws against abortion protests, which said that Christians were unrelated.

Especially since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, European intelligence agencies have sparked warnings about what it considers a systematic effort by Russia in collective misinformation and propaganda, often using the fake social media accounts of SOW and doubtful democratic systems.

Mr. Vans mocked and reduces this threat.

“It seems more and more like the established old interests that hide behind the words of the ugly Soviet era, such as wrong and misleading information, who simply loves the idea that someone has an alternative view that may express a different opinion, or God forbid, in a different way, he said to a stone audience to Big: “Or worse than that, wins the elections.”

Pour contempt on Decision in “remote Romania”, “ It was also called, to cancel presidential elections due to clear evidence of the Russian manipulation of the political campaign.

He said: “If your democracy can be destroyed by a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertisements from a foreign country, it is not very strong at first.”

Such statements were a shock to those present who were hoping to learn more about the administration’s plans for peace negotiations with Russia. Mr. Vans, Ukraine, barely mentioned and referred to the conflict in traffic.

“While the Trump administration is very interested in European security and believes that we can reach a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, we also believe that it is important in the coming years that Europe will rise greatly to its provision of private defense, Mr. Vans said.” The threat that I feel more anxious is On Europe is not Russia, it is not China, it is not any other external actor. “

He added: “What worries it is the threat from the inside, and Europe’s decline from some of its most important values, which is the common values ​​with the United States.”

Mr. Vans also criticized group immigration to Germany and other countries in 2015, which included many asylum seekers fleeing wars in Afghanistan and Syria. Linking immigration to terrorist crimes, including a The car attack in Munich on Thursday By the Afghan asylum seeker, who was injured 30 people.

“For a decade, we saw the horror resulting from these decisions yesterday in this particular city,” he said.

Even before Mr. Vans spoke, experts at the Security Conference warned European leaders that they might be in a quick and painful rearrangement of the continent’s relationship with the United States.

Mr. Trump pushed to negotiate directly with the Russian President on Ukraine – which is likely to irritate European leaders – and his approach to factories in commercial policy and military spending on the breakfast link, hosted by the American Council in Germany and the International Accounting Company KPMG.

A member of the team, Jana Bougherreen, a co -worker at the European Council for Foreign Relations in Berlin, said it was possible that Mr. Trump built a new alliance for the Americans between the parties that share and “fight tourists” positions.

She said: “We have an American government that has different values, and a different vision of what the West should be.”

Council A new survey was released this week This indicates that the transformation of the value has already resonated in Europe. It found that the majority of Europeans now view America as a “necessary” and not “ally” during the reign of Mr. Trump. She also found that Mr. Trump’s return to the White House was celebrating in Europe among the members of many arduous right parties.

There is one, perhaps contradictory, an exception to this trend. The poll found that AFD members were more likely to say that Mr. Trump’s election would be bad for Germany instead of saying that it will be good.