Posted on 02/18/2025 6:20:37 PM PST by texas booster
During his trip to Europe last week, Vice President JD Vance said to European leaders at the Munich Security Conference, “The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values—values shared with the United States of America.”
In the face of mounting inflation and rampant illegal immigration, Europe’s leaders must listen to their people and not take a “hard left,” plunging the country into a Joe Biden-level, continentwide nightmare, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
“[Vance’s] criticism was multifaceted: Close your borders. Legal-only immigration. Up your defense budget. Allow for free speech. We've gone through the Biden nightmare at home. We know what it was like to go hard left. Don't go that way. Deregulate. ...
“They have 16% of the population was not born in Germany. France is almost as bad. And they do not assimilate, intermarry, and integrate like we do. They are looking at this huge Russian-Ukrainian war on their borders where maybe 1.5 million people have been killed or wounded or missing. And they're critical of the United States that pays the greatest proportion of the NATO budget and who puts Europe under its nuclear shield. And they are damning us.”
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Hanson nails it again.
“being left” is a religious creed. It admits of no other God.
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Europe is lost.The elites of Europe have managed to cheat and prevaricate the rise of populist movements in France and in Germany, and have violated the Helsinki accords , with their oligarchs baiting the Russian bear unsuccessfully.
NATO is going to fade. The members will not pay their fair share.
The USA needs a new strategic alliance consisting of Poland, Sweden, Norway , Denmark ( Greenland) , Iceland and Canada. These are stable democracies yet unsullied by the curse of elitist political class, WEF thinking. The rest of “progressive” Europe will have to fend for itself as minarets will be added to most of their capital legislatures.
Having an effective alliance in the North Atlantic will allow America to work bearding the dragon of China with the alliance of Japan, Philippines, North Korea,India and Australia.
Israel has Iran on its heels and is now going to be economically isolated and weakened while its population is now ready to overthrow the Mullahs.Saudi and the other Sunna nations secretly support Israel.
This is the way that the Trump leadership may be evolving the an International Order of Genuine Democracies.
“The USA needs a new strategic alliance consisting of Poland, Sweden, Norway , Denmark ( Greenland) , Iceland and Canada. These are stable democracies yet unsullied by the curse of elitist political class, WEF thinking.”
Not quite. Out of those countries only Poland is free of their shackles, and only partially so. Iceland I’m not sure of. The rest of the countries will be having their civil wars starting within a generation.
Our Leftists are indeed quasi-religious.
Iceland barely counts as a country. It’s one city, about the size of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a bunch of picturesque tourist villages, and then a whole lot of dramatic but barely habitable landscape. It made a great unsinkable aircraft carrier in the North Atlantic from the 1940s through the end of the Cold War, and the Icelanders as a rule are smart and good-natured people, but the entire population of the country would fit into Wichita.
YOu may be right, but I am also reading the tea leaves on hiw the new administration is conducting itself.
Sweden did not institute the undemocratic draconian lockdown measures during Covid for example. The Scandinavian Countries are in the process of reorienting themselves to more traditional values.It took having 20 percent of their female population being raped by Muslim immigrants for them to change.
“The Scandinavian Countries are in the process of reorienting themselves to more traditional values.It took having 20 percent of their female population being raped by Muslim immigrants for them to change.”
I’m not saying you’re wrong, and I hope to hell you’re right, but I haven’t seen much of anything to that effect. In fact, they’re so deep into their mess that they will have to take some rather ‘unpleasant’ steps if they ever do want to get control of their societies back - again, something that I hope they do, but they may already be at the point where the outcome is no longer assured (unless Russia helps them).
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