US vice-president JD Vance says Europe should no longer be a “permanent vassal” of the United States for its security and trade. This is what he declared on Tuesday, in an interview with the Unherd British information site.
“We consider Europe as our ally. We simply want an alliance where Europeans will be a little more independent, and our security and trade relations will reflect it, “said JD Vance, who has already attacked European leaders several times. “It is not good for Europe, and it is not in the interest of America, that Europe is a permanent vassal of the United States in terms of security,” he insisted.
“Most European states” would not have sufficient army
“The reality is that – it is brutal to say but it is true – all the European security infrastructure has been, since my birth, subsidized by the United States of America,” said JD Vance. With the exception of France, the United Kingdom and Poland, according to him, “most European states do not have an army capable of ensuring a reasonable defense”.
In early March, he shocked Europeans by saying that for Ukraine, concluding an economic agreement with the United States would be “a better security guarantee than 20,000 soldiers from any country that has not waged war for 30 or 40 years”. Referring to the negotiations between London and Washington to conclude a bilateral economic agreement, the vice-president considered that they had “good chances” to achieve “excellent agreement that was in the best interest of the two countries”. Since his return to the White House, Donald Trump sum the Europeans of spending more to ensure their own defense and has strongly criticized the European Union, which he notably accuses of pursuing an inequitable trade policy towards the United States.
