{"id":2402726,"date":"2025-02-14T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-warns-greatest-threat-to-europe-is-from-within\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T12:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:43:39","slug":"vance-warns-greatest-threat-to-europe-is-from-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-warns-greatest-threat-to-europe-is-from-within\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance Warns Greatest Threat To Europe Is &#8216;From Within&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvance-warns-greatest-threat-to-europe-is-from-within%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2402726&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vice President J.D.Vance addressed European leaders at the Munich Security Conference, emphasizing that the primary threats to democracy\u2063 arise from within their own \u2064governments. He criticized European \u200dleaders for responding to \u200dcitizen frustrations \u2064over\u2062 unchecked immigration and for engaging in censorship and election\u2064 interference.Vance expressed concern that \u200dEurope \u2063is retreating from essential democratic values shared with the U.S., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joni-ernst-backs-trumps-gutting-of-usaid-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Joni Ernst backs Trump\u2019s gutting of USAID ... Washington Examiner\">citing specific instances<\/a>, such as the annulment of elections in Romania upheld by the European Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Vance highlighted\u2063 the contradiction between \u200bthe promotion \u200cof democracy and \u200cthe actions taken by \u2064European authorities, such as censoring political \u200dopponents and banning representatives\u2064 from populist parties from importent discussions. He also condemned the Biden \u200bgovernance for \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-road-to-serfdom-rep-donalds-slams-biden-administration-for-pressuring-social-media-to-censor-speech\/\" title=\"\u2018The Road To Serfdom\u2019: Rep. Donalds Slams Biden Administration For Pressuring Social Media \u2018To Censor Speech\u2019\">pressuring social media companies<\/a>\u200c to\u2064 censor\u2064 supposed misinformation, exemplified by the\u200d government\u2019s previous dismissal of the lab-leak theory regarding\u200d COVID-19&#8217;s origins.<\/p>\n<p>While \u2063calling for European nations to defend democracy and \u2064reject Soviet-style censorship, \u2064Vance identified\u200b mass migration as the most \u2062urgent\u2062 challenge facing the continent. He \u200dargued \u200bthat\u2063 voters did not choose to open borders and\u200c are increasingly\u2063 supporting leaders who promise\u2062 to curb uncontrolled immigration.\u2063 He concluded by stating that shutting down \u200bpolitical processes undermines\u2064 democracy\u200c and used humor to critique the outrage over figures \u2062like Elon Musk, suggesting that American democracy can\u200d withstand such controversies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vice President J.D. Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pCOsgfINdKg&amp;t=1551s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a> European leaders in Munich the greatest challenges threatening democracy today are the internal impulses of western governments to dismiss constituent frustrations over unchecked immigration and their moves to censor dissident speech.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine,&rdquo; Vance said, &ldquo;the threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe &hellip; is the threat from within.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The vice president characterized the threat at the Munich Security Conference as &ldquo;the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VP<\/a> in Munich: &#8220;The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe &hellip; is the threat from within &mdash; the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cwGgWDzWkg\">pic.twitter.com\/cwGgWDzWkg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1890397675779977253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Vance went through a series of episodes wherein European leaders celebrated the kind of censorship and election interference once condemned by the West.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For years, we&rsquo;ve been told that everything we fund, and support is in the name of our shared democracy values,&rdquo; Vance said. &ldquo;Everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defense of democracy, but when we see European courts cancelling elections and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-thumps-europe-over-free-speech-at-munich-security-conference\/\" title=\"Vance thumps ... over free speech at ...\">senior officials threatening<\/a> to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we&rsquo;re holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vance referenced the December <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/P-10-2025-000150_EN.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">annulment <\/a>of elections in Romania, the cancellation of which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montanarightnow.com\/national_news\/europe-rights-court-rejects-appeal-of-romania-vote-annulment\/article_2993e3b8-18b4-57c8-bcb6-f62ebd5a0cd6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">upheld<\/a> by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in January. The vice president also admonished leaders in Brussels, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, including Scotland, where European governments have engaged in the censorship and prosecution of political opponents. Later in the speech, Vance even called out &ldquo;the organizers of this very conference,&rdquo; for having &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">banned lawmakers representing populist parties<\/a> on both the left and the right from participating in these conversations.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Free speech, I fear, is in retreat,&rdquo; Vance said, &ldquo;and in the interest of comedy, my friends, but also in the interest of truth, I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within Europe but from within my own country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vance condemned the Biden administration&rsquo;s bureaucratic pressure on Silicon Valley that &ldquo;threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called &lsquo;misinformation.&#8217;&rdquo; The vice president gave the previous administration&rsquo;s efforts to dismiss the lab-leak theory of COVID-19&rsquo;s origins as an example, &ldquo;where our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In January, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/01\/25\/cia-now-says-covid-leaked-lab-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corroborated<\/a> what other federal agencies had begun to admit, which is the most probable explanation for the origin of the novel coronavirus was a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So, I come here today not just with an observation, but with an offer,&rdquo; Vance said. &ldquo;In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And under Donald Trump&rsquo;s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square,&rdquo; he said. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Vice President JD Vance:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town, and under Donald Trump&#8217;s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aAiL6kAZbJ\">pic.twitter.com\/aAiL6kAZbJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; The American Conservative (@amconmag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amconmag\/status\/1890407272423076219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>But after warning European leaders about the democratic consequences of their own censorship, Vance said &ldquo;there is nothing more urgent than mass migration.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants,&rdquo; Vance said, &ldquo;but you know what they did vote for? In England, they voted for Brexit &hellip; and more and more all over Europe, they are voting for political leaders who promise to put an end to out-of-control migration.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VP Vance: Out of all the pressing challenges the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration&hellip;We saw the horrors wrought by these decisions yesterday in this very city&hellip;No voter on this continent went to that ballot box to open the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EafdZYK4c0\">pic.twitter.com\/EafdZYK4c0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Julio_Rosas11\/status\/1890402074610851912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The vice president concluded by calling on the continent to step up in its own defense and eliminate Soviet-style censorship.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is the business of democracy to adjudicate these big questions at the ballot box,&rdquo; Vance said. &ldquo;I believe that shutting down elections or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In fact, it is the most surefire way to destroy democracy,&rdquo; Vance added. <\/p>\n<p>The vice president also finished by mocking the outrage over Elon Musk. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg&rsquo;s scolding, you can survive a few months of Elon Musk,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;If the American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunburg scolding, you can survive a few months of Elon Musk,&#8221; JD Vance in Munich. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xYpfmm484r\">pic.twitter.com\/xYpfmm484r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1890403094548132137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is a national correspondent for The Federalist and the co-author of &#8220;Fat and Unhappy: How &#8216;Body Positivity&#8217; Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself).&#8221; He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>. Buy &#8220;Fat and Unhappy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sz7EDAJI1c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President J.D. 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