Vance attack on Europe ignores Ukraine and defence agenda happymamay

The Munich Security Conference (MSC) was supposed to be on two things: how to end the war in Ukraine without surrendering to Russia, and how Europe needed to enhance its spending on defense.

But the biggest American present, US Vice President JD Vance, used his time on the platform to talk about no.

Instead, the delegates were shocked on Friday by attacking Washington’s allies, including Britain, in a blatant attack separating from wrong information, misinformation and freedom of expression rights.

It was 20 minutes very strange – one of them met largely with silence from the delegates in the hall.

Even a joke, “If the American democracy was able to survive 10 years [climate campaigner] Greta Thonberg failed, you, comrades, who can survive a few months of Elon Musk “failed to stir individual laughter.

In short, Vans’s speech fell very badly – unambiguously badly. It was unusually bad.

But who was aimed at?

An American commentator said to me after that: “This was everything for local consumption.”

However, the vice president did not continue to meet the besieged Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinski, who did his best to appear positive.

The couple held a “good conversation”, according to Zelinski, who said he represents “our first meeting, not another, I am sure.” The Ukrainian leader emphasized the need for Washington and Kiev to speak more and work together to prepare the plan [on] How to stop Putin and end the war. “

“We really want, we want peace a lot. But we need real security guarantees,” Zelinski added.

According to US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin wants peace, but this peace according to his conditions. Unless they change in secret, they are invalidated by the surrender of Russia’s demands and the permanent concession of the lands to Moscow.

Vans’s speech came days after President Trump withdrew the carpet effectively from the position of negotiation in Ukraine through the waiver, through the Defense Minister Beit Higseth, that The restoration of Ukraine’s lands to what it was before the first Russian invasion in 2014 is simply “unrealistic”.

The United States also shattered Kiev’s hopes to join NATO, a major ambition for President Zelinski, and has ruled out the sending of American forces to help protect the borders of Ukraine from the next time Russia has decided to invade.

Before the Munich conference, Europe was astonished by the news that Trump had apparently made a 90 -minute phone call with Putin, thus suddenly ending the West’s freezing for three years in speaking to the Russian leader who was in place since 2022 invasion.

Munich delegates are scheduled to focus on the war in Ukraine in a high -level debate on Saturday.

Fear in Munich between European leaders and their delegations is that in Donald Trump’s rush to ensure a peace agreement in Ukraine, Putin will appear victorious and stronger and plan to seize more parcels of land in Europe.