US Vice President JD Vance has launched another attack on Europe, claiming that the continent is engaging in ‘civilisational suicide’ caused by open borders and censorship.
Speaking on Fox News, the VP said he fears for the future of the West due to seeing many countries in Europe as ‘unable or unwilling’ to ‘control their borders’.
He said on the network’s Ingraham Angle show: ‘They are unable or unwilling – too many countries – to control their borders.
‘You see them starting to limit the free speech of their own citizens even as those citizens are protesting against things like the border invasion that got [US President] Donald Trump and a number of European leaders elected.
‘I want Europe to thrive. I want them to be an important ally. Part of that is going to be Europe respecting its own people, respecting its own sovereignty, and America can’t do that job for them.’
During this, he also credited Christian civilisation, which led to the founding of the United States, to Europe.
‘The cultural bonds, the religious bonds – these things are going to last beyond political disagreements,’ Mr Vance said.
Speaking on Fox News, JD Vance said he fears for the future of the West as many countries in Europe are ‘unable or unwilling’ to ‘control their borders’
It comes after a number of rants Mr Vance launched on European countries, including the UK, during the Munich security conference
He then picked on Germany, saying ‘where you have another few million immigrants come in from countries that are totally culturally incompatible with Germany, then it doesn’t matter what I think about Europe.
‘Germany will have killed itself, and I hope they don’t do that because I love Germany, and I want Germany to thrive.’
It comes after a number of rants Mr Vance launched on European countries, including the UK, during last month’s Munich security conference when he mentioned a legal case in which a former serviceman was convicted of breaching the safe zone around a British abortion centre.
In a wider attack on what he suggested is a shift away from democratic values across Europe, Mr Vance claimed the ‘basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular’ are under threat. Donald Trump praised this attack, calling it ‘brilliant’.
These comments later sparked an emergency EU summit after Mr Vance also said that European leaders would not be part of any Ukraine peace talks.
Mr Vance later defended his remarks in the Oval Office in front of Keir Starmer and Donald Trump, saying: ‘Look, I said what I said, which is that we do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the UK, and also some of our European allies, but we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British.’
In a wider attack on what he suggested is a shift away from democratic values across Europe, Mr Vance claimed the ‘basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular’ are under threat
Mr Vance later defended his remarks in the Oval Office in front of Keir Starmer and Donald Trump
However, the PM fired back saying, ‘Well, we’ve had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom and it will last for a very, very long time.
‘Certainly, we wouldn’t want to reach across US citizens, and we don’t, and that’s absolutely right, but in relation to free speech in the UK, I’m very proud of our history there.’
Mr Vance later caused a huge backlash after suggesting Britain was a ‘random country’ that had not ‘fought a war in 30 or 40 years’, which he later denied.
The US Vice President desperately attempted to clarify his comments after he sparked a furious backlash among military veterans and MPs from all parties.
He said this while he was referring to a potential peace deal to end the Ukraine war.
Mr Vance used a Fox News interview to pile pressure on Ukraine to sign a minerals deal with US President Donald Trump.
He said this was ‘a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years’.
Mr Vance later caused huge backlash after appearing to label Britain as a ‘random country’ that had not fought a war in 30 or 40 years’
Trump praised Vance’s attack on Europe calling it ‘brilliant’
Seething ex-servicemen pointed out that 636 British troops died in Afghanistan and Iraq after the UK allied with the US in military action following the 9/11 terror attacks.
Mr Vance was accused of ‘erasing from history’ the sacrifice of UK personnel in those bloody conflicts, with his remarks labelled ‘deeply disrespectful’.
But the Vice President later strained to claw back his remarks amid the widespread anger at his intervention.
He claimed he had not been aiming his barb at Britain or France – who are the only two countries to publicly commit to a peacekeeping force in Ukraine.
Yet Mr Vance failed to clarify which nations he had been referring to.
Critics pointed to the huge list of countries who lost troops after joining US military action in Afghanistan after 9/11.Â
Sir Keir’s official spokesman saying: ‘The PM and this country are full of admiration for UK troops who served in recent years in Iraq and Afghanistan alongside the US and other allies.’
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said Mr Vance was ‘wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong’.
‘For 20 years in Afghanistan – pro rata our size against America’s – we spent the same amount of money, we put the same number of men and women in, and we suffered the same losses,’ he told GB News, as he attended a farmers’ protest in Westminster.
‘We stood by America all through those 20 years, putting in exactly the same contribution.
‘And, all right, they may be six times bigger but we did our bit. So, on this one, JD is wrong.’
