Vice President Vance travels to Germany where he calls out European leaders for abandoning

Western values.

You cannot win a democratic mandate by censoring your opponents or putting them in jail,

whether that's the leader of the opposition or a journalist trying to report the news.

How was the VP's blunt speech received?

And why is French President Macron calling an emergency meeting over Ukraine?

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Leaders in Europe expressed deep frustration with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance over the weekend,

slamming their calls to end censorship and their plans to end the war in Ukraine.

Here are the details amid all the international drama as Daily Wire Senior Editor Cabot, Phillips, A. Cabot.

So Trump and Vance really shaking up Europe, maybe not so

surprisingly. Let's start with Vance, who ruffled some feathers with a high-profile speech in

Germany. What did we hear from the vice president? Yeah, the vice president appeared at the

Munich Security Conference over the weekend and stunned lawmakers and military leaders from across

Europe, calling them out to their face,

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