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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There has been a maelstrom of controversy about Vice President JD Vance. Last week he spoke at the Munich Security Conference but he chose not to speak just necessarily about security issues—i.e., NATO contributions—but rather the larger problem with Europe itself.
And that controversy still continues today. Basically, what JD Vance said was:
We have to get along—Europe and the United States—we are twins of the Western tradition. But, my God, it’s getting hard for you. You go after and persecute people who object to abortion. You take American tech companies and try to censor them, even when they conduct…