JD Vance says US could veto NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms
Republican vice presidential nominee says ‘Germans and other nations’ – not Russia – would ‘have to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction’
“I’m not going to go to some backwoods country and tell them how to live their lives,” Vance added. “But European countries should theoretically share American values, especially about some very basic things like free speech.”
The US ranked 26th in the world when it comes to free speech, with several members of the European Union higher up the list, according to the 2024 Global Expression Report.
😑 I'm going to have to disconnect from the news more often moving forward
most of europe explicitly does not have free speech, because it's commonly understood that harmful speech exists. i don't know what he's trying to convey with that idea but he comes across as misinformed, and not a little bit controlling ("should")
American here! Its because this is all rhetoric for the idiots that follow him. He doesn't care if Europeans see him as an idiot, he cares that the idiots here see him as big brained. And the rubes eat up anything that has "free speech" in it because they generally interpret that as "its OK to be racist and misogynistic, its my right because freedoms!"
Hope this helped explain.
And probably also explains why I want to leave.
Americans always freak out when they hear Canada has hate speech laws and claim they're anti free speech.
Most of us don't ever need to worry about hate speech laws, because most of us aren't going around calling for violence and open bigotry against entire ethnic groups.
Not accepting hate speech, in particularly inciting violence is not contradictory to free speech in my opinion.
We should not follow the US idea, that speech is only free, if any vile poison can be spread. In the context of Musk that is also ironic, as he is using his powers to censor people.
I think it's clear that we can never rely on the US again in any respect. Absolute chaotic backwater sinkhole of an oligarch fascist state.
We're on our own.
Maybe it's good that we know that now.
Now only our politicans have to realise that
I can't even rely on the US government to value human decency as a native citizen. I'll keep fighting where I can, but yeah. Good luck.
As an American, I agree. Hopefully the Republicans try to go off the rails enough that the public finally gets convinced that the only way to deal with these maniacs is their own language - violence.
I hope you guys can get through it without anything dramatic happening, but I don't think the world can afford to rely on the US being consistently reasonable any more. This is genuinely Russia level stuff.
I think if the people want to fight back it needs to happen pretty soon. Trump already announced military force against „enemies from within“.
Did…did Vance just call European countries “backwoods”? He couldn’t possibly have, right? He’s not that stupid…right?
I think he means "backwood countries can do whatever they want, but EU countries can't"
Why is that stupid? Europeans are dependent on him now. European leaders will demurely congratulate Trump and him on their victory and hope they won't be hit too hard by what comes next.
Trump has long shared his disdain for NATO – during his first term, he reportedly privately discussed pulling out of the alliance completely.
Which would at this point not be unwelcomed.
It wouldn't be fantastic, the UK and France can't project the same kind of power the US does.
Is the US power projection at the long term benefit of the EU though? The consistent destabilization of the Middle East for instance brought more tension to Europe as people had to flee from the region. EU member states getting dragged into US wars didn't help our image in the world either.
When it comes to defense, UK and France have enough nukes for effective deterrent. The EU is also large enough to thwart aggression at its borders and buffer zones like countering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, if the EU chooses to develop and maintain a joint defense infrastructure. Unfortunately that was postponed instead of forwarded after Biden won in 2020 and EU politicians went back to the status quo.
I can't see how this makes any sense in a geopolitical view.
They aren't being nice to our oligarch, that isn't a good enough reason?
X is trumpisms propaganda channel. Can’t have that regulated now can we?
In international relation rhetoric is policy. Just saying.
Jup, sarcasmitron has a cool video out about the last time trump was president and he makes exactly this point too.
So not only declared JD Ottoman-fucker Vance his incompetence and ignorance of global affairs but also admits being on putins payroll.
That's hilarious. Vance thinks he can control the EU.
I'm Glad the Owner of those Websites isn't now a High Ranking Government Official! THAT would be a HUGE Conflict of Interest!
Why are you posting an article from September (= before the US election) now, in November?
So Vance is running the place not Trump?
Actually a little yes. He was chosen because he's a silicon valley fucker and friends with Peter Thiel. Hence the elon connection.
Vance wasn't just a stupid pick
Your government, bought and paid for.
"Don't try to get the government involved in the business of billionaires, unless the government is giving them billions more of taxpayer dollars, or making it illegal to compete with them"
If that threat is even an option to bluff, then unfortunately NATO will likely be going away no matter what :(
I so hope I'm wrong.
Why? If the US withdraws the rest can stay, the framework exists. It's a matter of reciprocity. NATO/the EU would just need to expand her nuclear arsenal
Yes the US is absolutely the 500 pound gorilla in the room, but if the US manages to burn their relations with their allies, and stuff like 5 eyes would cease, they are essentially blind. The US operates it's intelligence network at the behest of countries and relies on information sharing just as much.
And with Iran and a LOOOOONG list of groups and people and countries they fucked over, angered, bombed, etc... the US will not see the next 9/11 coming.
The US has a lot of capabilities, but if a group of radicals manage to hijack several planes and bring down your new York landmark and damage the Pentagon, just imagine what better organized and equipped players can do.
Oh, and NATO operates primarily US weaponry, this also has a reason. If the US withdraws from NATO I think we will see cancelled orders and an orders placed elsewhere.. within NATO member states.
Nah, if they are dump enough to push it that far there will actually be a coup in the USA.
Those guys that are itching to go and coup or invade countries that do not align with US interests are not going to just allow the US empire to crumple because of Democracy of all things.
Domestically things might not be much better though and it's possible that the US will resemble pre-Erdogan Turkey. A democracy with the military as a guardian.
Shame, but now we are gonna block greedy tech megacorps even harder!
Where does the "veto" un your title come from? The US can't veto shit. And Vance' quote is to stop support for NATO, not veto.
From the site. I don't change their headlines.
Ah, but they changed theirs :D