Conservative New York Times columnist Brett Stevens called Vice President Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference “disgraces” and criticised Vance for meeting with leaders of German far-right parties did.
“The Vice President's speech at Munich's Security Conference last week – the man who said Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election gave an audience on his retreat from democratic values in Europe. Germany, or AFD The correct alternative for the party of the party caused a scandal because it was a scandal. A monument to arrogance based on the foundation of hypocrisy.” Published on his Open Tuesday.
Stevens compared Vance's trip to Munich with the reconciliation efforts of the First World War by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who flew to Munich in 1938, and hoped to steal Germany from a massive war. We agreed to annex the Detenlands.
“Like one particular British Prime Minister, the US vice president went to Munich and continued on his idealism, breaking down people and bread that wiped out democratic ideals, Stevens wrote.
Vance on Friday used his first major speech on the international stage to accused European leaders of retreating from “core values.”
He argued that the biggest threat facing Europe is not even in China, but laws that restrict large-scale migration and freedom of speech.
“The Trump administration is very interested in European security and believes that it will be possible to reach a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, but I am not Russia that Europe is most concerned about, and China. Not that, it's not what other external actors,” Vance said.
“And what I'm worried about is the threat from within,” he continued. “The retreat of Europe from some of the most fundamental values, some of the values shared with the United States.”
In his column, Stevens said that some of Vance's arguments “some European governments are going too far to reduce legitimate freedom of speech,” and that “the mainstream mainstream political parties in Europe , acknowledged many ways, particularly for German Christian Democrats. Under Merkel, he recognised migration, domestic security, fiscal policy, energy policy, and other issues that drive conservative voters to their far right weapons. We have adopted a left-leaning position.”
But Stevens defends Germany in a way that tackles a totalitarian past, describing it as “undoubtedly democratic. A memory of what the country once was.”
