Vance's latest message is deceitful and foolish

WAZ Vance's latest message is deceitful and foolish Dirk Hautkapp • 2 hours • 2 minutes reading time Radical stuff has been talked about for years at the meeting of ultra-conservatives in America - CPAC for short. Now Trump's Vice President JD Vance has also made a name for himself here. Linking the cultural struggle with military strategy is new. The fact that the American Vice President is now resorting to this method to once again convey his master's (Donald Trump's) hatred of Germany is both a provocation and a disgrace. Vance's message across the Atlantic is: Adopt our anything-goes attitude to freedom of expression (i.e. stop the fight against hate speech and incitement on the Internet), otherwise we may bring home our soldiers who have been stationed with you for 80 years. That is deceitful and foolish from an American perspective. It is deceitful because in the USA, since Trump took office, freedom of speech has been increasingly restricted using dictatorial methods. See, for example, the way the news agency "AP" is being treated, which refuses to name a body of water as Trump demands. Foolish because the constant waving of the partial withdrawal (Trump wanted to send around 12,000 GIs home in 2020 out of frustration with Germany's NATO spending) is gradually becoming boring. Especially since this act would harm no one more than the USA itself. The currently around 38,000 US soldiers are not here to protect the Federal Republic. They are here to keep a globally indispensable US hub running and to be closer to Russia. Bases such as Ramstein (the largest air force base outside the USA) or the military hospital in Landstuhl (the largest medical facility overseas) are essential for what the USA does militarily around the world. Replacing them would take years and cost billions. Congress doesn't want that. JD Vance knows all this. It's sad that he still makes this threatening gesture.