The speech of Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference was not only the most important speech on 14 February, which has been given by the uncertain young second-in-command in his political career. It was also a speech that surrounds an entire geopolitical era – the withdrawal of conscience, restraint and nationalism as the identity of American foreign affairs.
The Bernleen Wall Universalist Liberalism has been a long time in creating this departure, and the rebellious rebellion of the European clan to take the house powerfully to this point. For the future of the future, the US-Europe relationship will not be the same-and this is a good thing.
Vance took a blochorch to delicate European elite sensations. He, among other things, diverted the unfortunate “disgruntled” speech and large -scale immigration censorship from nations such as Syria and Afghanistan. The diplomats gathered in Munich were from hope, Aaghan. A German officer broke into tears from the lecture. In fact, Vance was voicing many European people who are sending clear indications by voting for nationalist-Lokluvavan immigration parties everywhere from Britain to old iron curtain.
But more than speaking to those Europeans, Vance was speaking as an American – and especially as a young American nationalist politician. And it is here that we see how the US-Europe relationship can be reset for a decade or longer.
For the previous generation of American leaders, the perception of distributing such a rigorous reprimand for the European Union’s stomach and high ranked European leaders would have been unimaginable. For Americans who came to the political era during the Cold War, it was expected that the United States and Western Europe, especially, would be associated with long -standing lockstay fashion. Eventually, unlike the Soviet Union and other communist countries, we shared the same values.
Vance’s speech underlined the growing chase between American and European values. The United States gives free speech awards; European not rapid. The United States, especially since January 20, once again awards sovereignty and nationalism; Not rapid in European clans.
But Europe’s broad Trump-Vance “America First” Criticism is much beyond a growing “values” chess. There is also a large -scale “national interest” chess. Unless and to appreciate Europe, the foreign policy of Maga-style realism keeps the discovery of American national interests above everything else, then America-Europe relations will be tense.
Trump Foreign Policy Principle, which goes back to his first term and has emerged as an articulate spokesperson, is dedicated to a cool assessment of the 21st century geo -political map. We live once again, as we did during the Cold War, in a multi -polar world; This time, the power to concentrate is Communist China. Accordingly, America’s huge imperative is to dedicate our limited resources – at least those who are deployed outside our own hemisphere – to contain and repeat China. But America, of course, there are other interests in the world; We Are Radical is a threat to Islamism, and we depend on the freedom of navigation on the seas, as any power.
The relevant question for structuring American foreign relations is how we can be the best powerful and efficient, usually self -sufficient colleagues are self -sufficient partners to patrol and secure their own areas of the world. Allies and United States only?
During the final year of Trump’s first term, Brocade, Abraham accepted peace deals, showing how it can work in practice. Foreign Policy Realism brought a strategic Iran-control coalition by Israel, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan, a strategic Iran-control alliance. (Saudi Arabia, although formally supports the edge, Antake.) Iran and its innumerable proxy militia present a continuous threat to the United States, as we learned tragically in Tower 22 last January. , And your-buck to contain the best-b-for-mullahs, American-national-to-reserve route hugs equal ideological colleagues for problems in their parts of the world Have to apply.
There Be able toIn theory, Europe has a similar position. The United States, after all, is threatened by Russia – although Europe is not as much as it is. But European aristocrats also often try to be both in ways with Russia; They are disappointingly accustomed to Russian energy, and above all were the main proposals of Germany Vladimir Putin-Society Nord Stream 2 Natural Gas Pipeline. Despite their addiction to Russian energy, they irony claim that Putin has fatal fear from regional ambitions. While the energy of the European Union buys the war machine of power Putin, many NATO members of Europe still Do not fulfill their defense spending treaties,
There is a gulf of a real “national interest” between the United States and Europe on Russia’s pressure question, including the disposal of war in Ukraine. If Europeans are very concerned about the exact nature of the Redrawn Donbas border in Eastern Ukraine, for example, they can invest more of their own military and diplomatic resources to carry out that disposal themselves. But Europe should not stand on the way to the US -led resolution for war in Ukraine.
The wall of the berrin has ended for a long time. Nationalism and realism are not just the taste of the day; They are the taste of the century. It will carry forward Europe to achieve with the program. JD Vance is correct.
Josh Hammer is Senior Editor-at-Laarge for Newsweek. This article was created in collaboration with Creators Syndicate. @josh_hammer
