Posted on 02/15/2025 7:29:58 PM PST by nwrep
President Trump stunned, strangled and humiliated Europe — leaving America's closest continental ally dazed and dumbfounded.
The big picture: No amount of "Trump-proofing" could have prepared Europe for the MAGA-shaped hurricane that swept across the continent this week, wreaking torrential havoc on America's closest allies.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth perplexed and perturbed allies on his first visit to NATO by seemingly taking some of Ukraine's bargaining chips off the table before those talks began. He also demanded that Europe take ownership of its own defense so the U.S. could focus on the more urgent threat from China.
But it was in Vance's remarks to the Munich Security Conference on Friday that things got particularly personal.
"[T]he 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," Vance began in one of his first major speeches on the world stage.
"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."
Vance called European Union officials "commissars" — a reference to the Soviet Union — and accused them of censoring their citizens in the name of fighting disinformation and hate speech online.
The bottom line: Europe's leaders have been bracing for Trump's return for well over a year. And yet much like the Democrats paralyzed by the chaos at home, the last three days have exceeded their worst nightmares.
❤️🩹Healing needed in the heart of Western Civ.
Plain-speaking always irritates socialists.
“Trump Strangles Europe”
No, it’s more like EUROPE strangled their people. For if the people were free in Europe, the Ukraine War would not have happened, or if it did start (due to the US Neocons), the Europeans would have told us to suck rocks and figure out a way to fight it without their help.
With such “allies”, America doesn’t need to have any ENEMIES!
The globalists love “creative destruction” when it’s them doing the destruction.
When somebody else is doing it, not so much.
“And yet much like the Democrats paralyzed by the chaos at home”
There’s no “chaos at home”, at least here in Texas. I can still buy gas (although at Biden-inflated prices), I can still buy food (although not eggs, due to Biden), and I still have electricity (although at Green New Deal prices, thanks to Biden).
Not sure what he’s referring to.
Europe forced to grow a pair.
Apparently, they have self-castrated.
Just like “Admiral Rachel” aka Richard (Dickless) Levine.
Really well said. There’s a loss of its soul.
“Bidenomics” (remember Kamalahaha coining that?) is still strangling America and her allies.
ALL of Zachary Bose's articles are Trump-bashing.
“He excoriated Romania for annulling the results of its Nov. 24 election, in which an obscure ultranationalist candidate rocketed to first place after a TikTok campaign that intelligence services linked to Russia.”
It’s not a bad story from USAID-funded Axios, but the above has been TOTALLY DISCREDITED as it was since proven that the ‘obscure ultranationalist candidate’ was the one who funded the TikTok campaign, not those EVIL Russians.
Locked their testicles in the lockbox and lost (hid?) the key?
They’ve been looking down their nose at us for decades. We don’t need their approval for anything. If China attacked us, do you really think the European countries would come to help us?
The so-called and misnamed "Enlightenment" sowed a whirlwind of darkness.
Headlines are over the top today.
Stune their beebers.
Had to be a very tiny lockbox.
LOL!
Europe has to clean up their act with these damn illegals they are letting in raping and murdering women
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