BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| GERMANY
Vice President JD Vance is in Germany speaking to the leaders of Germany. He criticized the German government for burying the far-right party, saying “Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters,” he said.
“There’s no room for firewalls.” JD is in Munich today for the Munich Security Conference.
“To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion or, God forbid, vote a different way, or even worse, win an election,” Vance said.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorious responded.
“If I understood him correctly, he is comparing conditions in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regimes,” Pistorius said. “That is unacceptable, and it is not the Europe and not the democracy in which I live and am currently campaigning.”
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“if you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.” He said no democracy could survive telling millions of voters that their concerns “are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.”
They also took exception to how JD Vance portrayed European leaders with their own illegal immigration and border issues.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said:
“He speaks as though we are not focused on immigration in Europe,” Gahr Støre said. “I mean, this is the big theme in every country, that we want to have control of our borders.”
“I don’t agree with him that what’s happening in Ukraine, what’s happening in Russia, what’s happening in China is less important than the presumed loss of freedom of speech in Europe,” Gahr Støre said.
It should be an interesting conference to say the least.
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