JD schools Europe
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Or, the Wannabe Trump.
United States Vice President JD Vance launched a blistering attack on European governments on Friday, chastising them for ignoring the will of their people, overturning elections, ignoring religious freedoms and not acting to halt illegal migration.
It was a U.S.-style MAGA, red meat speech that eschewed detailed discussion of defense and security — the topic of the Munich Security Conference. Vance instead hit on some recent hot button cultural issues, from abortion laws in Britain to the recent election in Romania.
“The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia. It’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within,” the vice president said. “The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-vice-president-jd-vance-attack-europe-migration-free-speech/
We're alientating all of our traditional allies. Which leaves....I don't even want to think about it.
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The world shook this weekend as deep cracks appeared in the transatlantic alliance during a glitzy security summit in Munich. One guest was ready to capitalise: China.
Top officials from the United States and Europe spent a chaotic weekend trading barbs over values, Ukraine and democracy, with US Vice-President J.D. Vance clashing with a series of German leaders over his courting of the far-right ahead of next week’s federal election.
Over lunch on Saturday, meanwhile, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg stoked further despair by saying Europe would not be included in peace talks, even as European boots would be expected on the ground in Ukraine. Vance and others also hinted that America’s security guarantee for Europe was in question.
In the margins, Beijing was making hay.
In a diplomatic blitz, Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his conservative opponent Friedrich Merz, Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte, and counterparts from the EU, Germany, Spain, and France. On each occasion, according to foreign ministry readouts, he pitched China as a partner to Europe and a friend of the existing order.
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From John Major:
On Vance’s speech, Major said:
That is not what we expect from the foremost nation in the free world. It’s certainly not statesmanship, and it potentially gives off very dangerous signals.
It’s extremely odd to lecture Europe on the subject of free speech and democracy at the same time as they’re cuddling Mr. Putin.
In Mr. Putin’s Russia, people who disagree with him disappear or die or flee the country, or, on the statistically unlikely level, fall out of high windows somewhere in Moscow.
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And I thought this was going to be about law schools in Europe.
I'm hoping Europe becomes the bulwark against this madness. I just found out my grandmother's Romanian birth record from 1897 still exists (many town halls lost theirs in the wars and other atrocities) and I'm going to get Romanian citizenship through their right of descent. If we lose everything here, at the very least we'll have health care.
Before you all jump down my throat about leaving, I have no plans to leave. But I have every intention of keeping a bag packed and having a Plan B. A friend of mine from MacDowell just announced on FB that she and her husband are leaving NYC after 30 years and their house is up for sale (Astoria). They bought a house in Seville, Spain, and move there tomorrow. She's German, so no problem for her under Schengen rules. But their decision has everything to do with the madness here. I don't blame them. I envy them.
If you haven't already, look into whether your ancestry entitles you to citizenship in another country.
fear is the thief of dreams
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@pique said in JD schools Europe:
If you haven't already, look into whether your ancestry entitles you to citizenship in another country.
I'm pretty sure mine does, but I don't think Lithuania is a very good choice right now....
eta: I checked and I qualify for Lithuanian citizenship. I hadn't considered the EU aspect of being a Lithuanian citizen. Definitely something to consider. Thanks for the heads up!
