Last weekend Sen. J.D. Vance gave a speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he made the case for negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. But his argument went beyond that. In fact, the main point he was trying to make was that America needed to pivot from a focus on Europe to a focus on East Asia.
The problem with Europe is that it doesn’t provide enough of a deterrence on its own because it hasn’t taken the initiative in its own security. I think that the American security blanket has allowed European security to atrophy.
“And again, the point is not we want to abandon Europe. The point is we need to focus as a country on East Asia, and we need our European allies to step up in Europe. I appreciate what my English friend [David Lammy] over here said. And of course, England has been one of the few exceptions where I think it has fielded a very capable military over…
