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Was J.D. Vance’s Speech Slamming European Leaders Over the Line? Or Exactly What They Needed to Hear?

By The Stream Published on February 24, 2025

In this two-hour video analysis, Apologetics Roadshow dissects the speech Vice President J.D. Vance delivered last week in Munich, where he warned that government censorship and repression of dissent in NATO countries is more of a threat to freedom than anything coming out of Moscow or Beijing — and not-so-subtly warned our Western allies that they can’t count on the U.S. to help them silence their own citizens. This speech caused a continent-wide meltdown among elites and emboldened dissident populist activists in their countries. Why was Vance’s message so important, and what will the blowback be like?