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Vance compares European leaders to Cold War tyrants

Politiko 2025-02-14 22:33:28

Vance compares European leaders to Cold War tyrants

US Vice President JD Vance has compared current European leaders to the autocrats who oversaw repressive regimes across the continent during the Cold War.

"When we see European courts overturning elections and senior officials threatening to overturn others, we have to ask ourselves whether we are holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard," Vance said Friday at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

Vance drew parallels between what he called the repressive crackdown on free speech today and the autocracies of the 20th century.

"Within the living memory of many of you in this room, the Cold War pitted defenders of democracy against far more tyrannical forces on this continent," Vance said.

“Consider the side of that war that censored dissidents, that closed churches, that canceled elections. Were they the good guys? Of course not. And thank God, they lost the Cold War. They lost because they neither appreciated nor respected all the extraordinary blessings of freedom, ” he said.

"You can't force people to think, to feel or to believe... Unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the winners of the Cold War ," he added. 

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