In his first major speech on the international stage, Vice President JD Vance criticized European leaders for allowing mass migration and extreme laws censoring speech, remarking that he worries more about Europe’s  “threats from within” than from external threats like Russia and China. “While the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine … the threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor,” said Vance. “What I worry about is the threat from within – the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.” The vice president’s confrontational remarks at the Munich Security Conference apparently surprised many officials who were expecting him to focus his remarks on Ukraine and Russia. Instead, Vance called them out for embracing authoritarian policies and using “ugly Soviet era words like misinformation and disinformation” to enact laws marginalizing populist voters. As an example of Europe’s draconian attacks on on free speech, the veep cited a recent egregious case in Great Britain:  “A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Conner, […]