The shock of Vans Europe with the support of the far right, in a familiar message to us

The defense of the Vice President JD Vance for an extremist right -wing political party in Germany was the latest example of its willingness to embrace a provocative political issue and showed how the strict immigration policy appeared as the thread appeared in a global group of high populations.

On Friday, the speech of Mr. Vans in Munich was an invitation to European leaders to expand their tolerance of alternative views. But his address from within the Bavarian hotel was certainly resonating at home between conservative and liberal movements that have long seized freedom of expression battles in Europe to warn the risks that could wave on the horizon for anti -immigration and opposing activists in the United States.

Mr. Vans did not mention the far -right party, the alternative to Germany, by name, but the context was clear because he criticized a decision to grant some political parties from the Munich Security Conference slightly more than one week before the national elections of Germany.

Although the party elements, also known for its first German letters, AFD, were classified as extremist through German intelligence, they are It seems on the right track For its strongest offer so far in the parliamentary elections amid anger at immigration and high prices.

Later on his speech, while surfing leaders in Europe on a large scale and Germany specifically rejecting the opinions of some voters, Mr. Vance said: “There is no room for the walls of protection.” This was a direct indication of how the leaders of the German party reference to the year to build a “protection wall” about AFD with the aim of moving the party to the main current.

A spokesman for Mr. Vance said that Mr. Vance also met with the party leader, Alice Widel, during his visit to Germany.

Mr. Vance gave the party’s implicit support in December when he had a reaction to social media to comment from Elon Musk, who to publish“Only AFD can save Germany.” Alone mailUse Mr. Vans His sharp personality on the Internet To ridicule the criticism that Mr. Musk was promoting a dangerous group.

“It is very dangerous for people to control their borders,” he wrote. “Therefore, very dangerous. The dangerous level is outside the plans.”

On Friday, Mr. Vance’s embrace of the extreme right -wing party was reprimanded by the Anti -Defamation Association, which he said in a statement was “interesting” that Mr. Vance seemed to welcomes a group with “an extremist agenda and history that includes a normal speech to the basic and anti -Muslims, Anti -democracy and the foreigners’ machine.

Carl Bilde, the former Swedish Prime Minister and now as the co -chair of the European Council for Foreign Relations, described Mr. Vans’s speech as disappointment.

“At best, it was not related to European or global security interests,” Mr. Bilet to publish On social media. “In the worst case, it was a flagrant intervention in the election campaign in favor of the far -right AFD.”

the Fighting Mr. Vans had brought to the international theater in Munich, familiar to conservative activists and others in the United States. His first days were consumed as a deputy candidate for the secret candidate by criticizing “women without children.” He directed the headlines of weeks by promoting baseless allegations that the Haiti immigrants were eating their neighbors.

Mr. Vans also spent most of the 2024 campaign to throw conservatives – and Mr. Trump in particular – as victims of censorship. he Categorical As a reason for refusing to recognize Mr. Trump’s defeat in the elections in 2020, and Blame Conservatives of the liberals after the assassination attempts against Mr. Trump.

In Munich, Mr. Vance chose this issue, saying that the biggest security threat to Europe was not Russia or China, but rather their suppression of freedom of expression, as he urged leaders to adopt the rise of the Foundation’s anti -hostility.

“There is nothing more urgent than mass migration.”. He pointed out that one out of every five people living in Germany moved to the country from another place, and that the United States has also a large share of immigrants.

Peter B. Duran, an assistant colleague in the non -party institution to defend democracies, Mr. Vance was “sowing his knowledge” in Europe on issues that “have a good political meaning for him in the states.”

“President Trump was elected with a promise that he would actively deal with the immigration crisis, and that many Europeans have regret for the buyer on the open immigration policies that they have experienced for many years,” said Mr. Duran. “Vans brings this gospel to the Europeans.”