Posted on 07/16/2024 2:26:31 PM PDT by Mariner
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In February, Europe's political and foreign policy elite heard directly from Senator J.D. Vance on his opposition to military aid for Ukraine and his blunt warning that Europe will have to rely less on the United States to defend the continent.
If those comments at the annual Munich Security Conference were a first wake-up call, alarm bells are now ringing loudly across the continent after Republican Donald Trump picked Vance as his vice presidential candidate for November's U.S. election.
"His selection as the running mate is worrying for Europe," said Ricarda Lang, co-leader of the German Green party that is part of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government, who took part in a panel discussion with Vance in Munich.
The pick stoked fears in Europe that if Trump returns to the White House, he will drop, or curb, U.S. support for Kyiv and push Ukraine into peace negotiations to end the war that would give Moscow a substantial slice of Ukraine and embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin to pursue further military adventures.
That view was bolstered by a letter to EU leaders from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who visited Trump last week. Orban, a Trump ally, said the ex-president will be "ready to act as a peace broker immediately" if he wins in November.
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Ukraine will be told to cut a deal that freezes the lines where they are, and that formally cedes Crimea and the Eastern Oblasts.
Or, be cut off entirely and left to their fate.
NATO will also be on notice: Fund yourselves, because we are not carrying your load anymore.
yep
“Lang said on X that Vance had made very clear in Munich how quickly he and Trump would “deliver Ukraine to Putin”.
The sooner Russia prevails, the sooner US interests are served by a return to normalcy of worldwide food and energy markets.
How come European leaders aren’t worried about the Sub-Saharan Africans and Muslims invading their countries? There was a mass shooting in Germany just the other day. Women and young girls are raped on a daily basis. Do these leaders not see this??
Who gives an obama about what Europe thinks?
lol the Eurotraah are afraid Trump will make them pay their NATO bills instead of ripping off America
Let the Europeans take care of Ukraine. We have been supporting them for three years.
I guess we all hear what we want to hear. What I heard Vance say last night was that he “didn’t care about Ukraine” and was focused on our border and our economy. Sounds great to me, good priorities, but thats not the same as saying defund/abandon Ukraine. If Vance is aligned with Trump, and I believe he is, Trump has said Russia needs to come to the table, and if Russia does not make some reasonable effort to come to the table, Trump will do a Reagan on them and put so much support into the region that Russia will have to come to terms.
All of this is stated at a much lower volume than the at home issues that need to be addressed. But I think you will find Trump/Vance to still have a peace through strength foreign policy.
I’d ask NATO allies how many troops they sent or even offered to send troops to our southern border or offered billions to protect by sending weapon... Then I’d say step up and protect your own borders at your own expense.
You just have to keep paying !
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Their libtard leaders are exactly the same as our libtard leaders. So no, they don't care.
“Europeans” are not alarmed
Globalist, EU statist Davos-types are alarmed.
Funding forever war,money laundering,war mongering Brandon-Ukraine in a territorial dispute is not MAGA. Diplomacy and peace where the best interests of the USA are first and foremost is the agenda.
Good post.
European ‘worries’ seem to be a case of misplaced priorities.
“...is worrying for Europe...”
They are such damn freeloaders. The USA has had to pay their military defense bill for 80 years. Germany, France and the UK are MORE than capable of defending Europe. They have nukes too.
It is long past time for Europeans to put on the big boy pants and stop sucking on the American teet.
America is a cash cow. Is Europe poor and without resources to help fund the war. Maybe are funding it but maybe they need to double their contributions.
I am betting that like the NATO they want the United States taxpayers to pay the bills while they pay little or nothing.
They’re alarmed that they can’t rely on us to subsidize and fix their own problems.
NATO is alarmed because the NATO bureaucrats depend upon the US to pay their slaries and without the US they are out of jobs. The Deep State doesn't just live in DC. There are a lot all over Europe, particularly in Brussels.
Europe will always be there for us when they need us.
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