Posted on 02/14/2025 2:44:52 PM PST by SoConPubbie
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance has called for Germany’s establishment parties to reconsider their policy of shutting out the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Vance said, “I think, unfortunately, the will of voters has been ignored by a lot of our European friends.”
“It’s really about censorship and about migration, about this fear that President Trump and I have, that European leaders are kind of terrified of their own people,” the Vice President explained to the press ahead of his address to the conference.
“It’s really about censorship and about migration, about this fear that President Trump and I have, that European leaders are kind of terrified of their own people, he added.
Vance struck a similar tone when turning to the question of supposed Russian influence over the European political discourse, saying, “If your democratic society can be taken down by $200,000 of social media ads, then you should think seriously about how strong your grip on or how strong your understanding of the will of the people actually is.”
The AfD is currently the second-most popular party in Germany, projected to place ahead of the governing Social Democrats and their current and former coalition partners in the Green and Free Democratic parties. It will likely place behind the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a notionally right-wing party that occasionally indulges in anti-mass migration rhetoric but was formerly led by Angela Merkel, who opened Germany to millions of Middle Eastern migrants.
Elon Musk, the tech mogul leading the Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE) for the Trump administration, has previously endorsed the AfD, calling it the only party that can save Germany.
I’m sure they will get right on that.
Not respecting a Neo-Nazi political party is recognizing the will of their voters and citizens.
Vance and Musk are Correct. The 23rd should be.... "Very Interesting" ;)
Where do you get the idea that AfD is Neo-Nazi?
Must be a troll.
if you look at that troll’s history, you’ll see that he posts mostly nonsense.
and obviously supports monarchies.
Account is less than a year old.
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The tricky thing about populism is that it’s so popular.
The Germans crave to be held at leather’s end. They are always a problem no matter who it is that takes grip of the reins.
Well, at least so far. It might change.
“Where do you get the idea that AfD is Neo-Nazi?”
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Funding, their history, and their own statements. https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/dangerous-liaisons-the-true-proximity-of-germany-s-afd-to-neo-nazis-a-e69c51d3-4b3c-49d2-8d54-d7b0a19c3f9a
America needs an ally in Europe. If it cannot be England, it should be AfD in Germany.
Yep, either they were going to go Communist or Nazi by 1933, there was no middle ground.
“Must be a troll.”
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Not at all, but I did spend several years in Germany in service to our nation.
America needs an ally in Europe
It should be Poland.
Establishment magazine; why should I believe them?
I will agree! What happened? Did Nuland make a special visit? I thought Poland would be on the right side of the Ukraine farce, and then they were suddenly going to ship planes!
My point is that we blew up Germany’s gas pipeline (it was Russian), so we really ought to make amends.
They should be a close ally. Unfortunately geogrphy hampers them. No port on the Atlantic. Makes resupply more difficut. If the balloon indeed goes up no depth to the defense.
We also relied heavily on the Royal Navy, because we were quickly expanding our presence in the Pacific after the acquisition of Hawaii and The Philippines. Even then, it was a given that the US and Japan were on a collision course.
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