Newly minted US Vice President JD Vance gave a magnificent address to the Munich Security Conference on February 14th. One would think that he would have spent most of the speech talking about the Russo-Ukraine War, arms production, and defense expenditures vis-à-vis GDP. In fact, he touched on these topics only very briefly.

Instead of orating on defense matters, he took his European hosts to task for their suppression of free speech on the continent. He went on the attack and didn’t mince words. His first topic was the annulment of the Romanian presidential election on dubious grounds. He even alluded to, but didn’t name the bad actors in Germany who are eager to take the Alternative for Germany Party off the ballot. He gave examples of instances in Sweden where people were prosecuted for criticizing feminism, as well as criminal prosecutions for Koran burning. He referenced folks going to jail in Britain for praying silently outside an abortion clinic. So as not to sound self-righteous, he mentioned the Biden administration’s threats to tech companies to remove alleged “misinformation” on the Wuhan virus off the web or be punished.

https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/jd-vance-defends-real-democratic-values-in-munich?