Has JD Vance declared ideological war on Europe?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | After the speech of Vice President Vance on Friday, we have to fear that our common value base |
| 0:19.4 | is not that common anymore. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm very grateful to all those European politicians that spoke out and reaffirmed the values |
| 0:28.6 | and principles that they are defending. No one did this better than Presidency Selensky. |
| 0:35.6 | Let me conclude and this becomes difficult. |
| 0:38.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:43.5 | Europe feels like it's been kicked in the face this weekend, punched in the gut by some of the |
| 0:53.8 | words from J.D. Vance at the Munich |
| 0:56.4 | Security Conference. He has essentially declared an ideological war on Europe. And the voice you |
| 1:02.5 | heard there was the Munich Security Conference Chair Christoph Heigsen. He ran out of words |
| 1:07.4 | and the applause was for his tears. It has been the most chilling, disturbing |
| 1:13.9 | weekend with not just J.D. Vance, but others from the Trump administration to a pining. So a basic |
| 1:21.9 | question is, what's America up to? The more fundamental one is where does this leave the |
| 1:27.3 | transatlantic partnership, |
| 1:29.0 | the Western security umbrella, NATO, and are we seeing the end of 80 years of cooperation |
| 1:36.4 | between the United States and Europe? Welcome to the Newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 1:45.0 | It's John. |
| 1:46.0 | It's Emily. |
| 1:47.0 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:48.0 | We could today have been in Paris for the Emergency European Summit. |
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