This year, the Munich Security Conference (MSc) was mostly about two things: how to end the war in Ukraine without giving Russia and how Europe needs to increase its defense costs.
But the oldest American gift, the US Vice -President JD Vance, used his time on the podium to tell anything.
Instead, he shocked the delegates on Friday, severely attacking Washington’s allies, including Britain, in a brilliant attack that deciphered misinformation, misinformation and the rights of free speech.
It was a very strange 20 minutes – one of the silences to the hall heardly met with silence in the hall.
Even a joke, “when American Democracy can survive 10 years (climate campaign) Greto Tunberg, you can survive the few months Elon Musk,” you couldn’t collect a single laughter.
He accused European governments of retreating from his values and ignoring voters on migration and freedom of expression.
Vnes’ speech went very badly – definitely bad. It was unusually poorly evaluated.
But who was it aimed at?
After that, the American commentator said to me, “It was all for us inner consumption.”
The vice -president, however, continued to meet with the fighting Ukrainian President Valodimir Zelensky, who did his best to seem positive.
According to Zelensky, the couple had a “good conversation”, which said that “our first meeting, not the last, I am sure.” The Ukrainian leader emphasized the need for Washington and Kiev to speak more and work together “to prepare the plan (hereinafter) how to stop Putin and end the war.”
“We really want to peace. But we need real security guarantees,” Zelensky added.
According to US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin also wants peace, but this is peace in his terms. If they have not changed secretly, they provide for the surrender to Russia’s requirements and the permanent transition to Moscow.
Ven’s speech took place a few days after President Trump effectively pulled out the carpet from Ukraine’s negotiating position, missed, thanks The restoration of the territory of Ukraine to where it was before the first Russian invasion in 2014, simply “not realistically”.
The US also threw Kiev’s hopes to join NATO, the key ambition of President Zelensky, and turned off to send us troops to help protect Ukraine’s borders from the next time Russia decided to break.
On the eve of the Munich Conference, Europe was stunned by the news that Trump had obviously a heartfelt 90-minute phone call with Putin, thus, stopping the three-year freezing of the West in conversation with the Russian leader, which has been operating since the time of 2022. invasion.
Delegates in Munich are scheduled to focus on the war in Ukraine in a high -profile discussion on Saturday.
Fear of Munich among European leaders and their delegations is that in Donald Trump’s hurry to provide a peaceful deal in Ukraine, Putin will become victorious, stronger and plans to seize more land in Europe.
