How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance

#Trump & Vance teamed up to goad #Zelenskyy into a feud in the Oval Office. But it was Vance that snaked his way in first, riling up the Ukrainian president by telling him that he was leading “propaganda tours” of the destruction wrought by Russia’s invasion.

The rest, as Trump would later call it, was “great television”. By design, it was disastrous for Ukraine.

This was Vance’s second great intervention this month. His #Eurosceptic worldview came into focus in #Munich, where he #accused shocked #European leaders of stifling #FreeSpeech telling them that “if you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you”

At the time, Kaja Kallas, the #EuropeanUnion’s foreign policy chief, said: “Listening to that speech … they try to pick a fight with us and we don’t want to a pick a fight with our friends”.

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