Vance’s recent talk in Munich ticked many of the boxes of today’s Russian ideology: anti-migrant rhetoric, curbs on abortion, and the equation of “cancel culture” with infringement of free speech.
Then six years later, at last week’s Munich Security Conference, Europe’s elites listened in shock as America’s second-ranking leader, Vice President JD Vance, made many of the same points — a sign of how Putin’s views and the “anti-woke agenda” he champions have gone mainstream in conservative parts of the U.S. establishment.
Then six years later, at last week’s Munich Security Conference, Europe’s elites listened in shock as America’s second-ranking leader, Vice President JD Vance, made many of the same points — a sign of how Putin’s views and the “anti-woke agenda” he champions have gone mainstream in conservative parts of the U.S. establishment.
