Vice President JD Vance created waves in Europe during a speech at the Munich Security Conference. Vance attacked European leaders on violations of free speech, immigration and completely sidestepped the Russo Ukraine War; the most important security issue (BBC).

Vance’s only statement on Ukraine was he hoped a reasonable settlement could be reached. Bashing European leaders for not engaging with Germany’s far right and not addressing immigration concerns was a great diversion. It also allowed him to appear tough while taking the “Neville Chamberlain stance” on Vladimir Putin.

Creating rifts between the United States and her allies appears to be of prime interest to Donald Trump and his staff of techno billionaires. To the advantage of China and Mother Russia.