Watch the Full Historic JD Vance Speech in the Munich Security Conference

The newly-inaugurated Donald J. Trump administration is moving so Fast it’s dizzying, and - what’s more - the historical moments succeed themselves in equally astonishing pace.

That’s why I want to post this memento of today’s groundbreaking scene in world geopolitics: US Vice-President JD Vance’s speech in the Munich Security Conference.

It was an earth-shattering performance that took the attendees by surprise, as Vance tackled the REAL security threat to Europe: loss of Western values, mass migration, and Liberal-Globalist censorship.

Below you have a complete video of the 18-minute speech, and after that, a LONG collection of important bits for future reference.

Preserving European values.

“I see many great military leaders gathered here today, but while the Trump administration is very concerned with European security, and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, and we also believe that it's important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense, the threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor, and 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.

Now, I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election. He warned that if things don't go to plan, the very same thing could happen in Germany too. Now these cavalier statements are shocking to American ears.

For years, we've been told that everything we fund and support is in the name of our shared democratic values. Everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defense of democracy.

‘But when we see European courts cancelling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we're holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard, and I say ourselves because I fundamentally believe that we are on the same team’.

Rampant Censorship in the EU.

“When I look at Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War's winners. I look to Brussels, where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be, quote, hateful content.

Or to this very country, where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of, quote, ‘Combating Misogyny on The Internet, a Day of Action’. I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder.

[…] And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs. A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith-Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own.

And after British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. Now the officers were not moved. Adam was found guilty of breaking the government's new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility.”

‘He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution. […] In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.’

EU ‘Soviet’ censorship.

“Now to many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don't like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion, or God forbid, vote a different way, or even worse, win an election.”

What is the Europe we defend?

“What is the positive vision that animates this shared security compact that we all believe is so important? And I believe, deeply, that there is no security if you are afraid of the voices, the opinions, and the conscience that guide your very own people.

If you're going to enjoy competitive economies, if you're going to enjoy affordable energy and secure supply chains, then you need mandates to govern, because you have to make difficult choices to enjoy all of these things, and of course we know that very well in America.

You cannot win a democratic mandate by censoring your opponents or putting them in jail, whether that's the leader of the opposition, a humble Christian praying in her own home, or a journalist trying to report the news. Nor can you win one by disregarding your basic electorate on questions like who gets to be a part of our shared society.”

‘And of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration.’

Mass migration.

“Today, almost one in five people living in this country moved here from abroad. That is, of course, an all-time high. It's a similar number, by the way, in the United States, also an all-time high.

[…] And we know this situation, it didn't materialize in a vacuum. It's the result of a series of conscious decisions made by politicians all over the continent and others across the world over the span of a decade.

[…] But why did this happen in the first place? It's a terrible story, but it's one we've heard way too many times in Europe and unfortunately too many times in the United States as well. An asylum seeker, often a young man in his mid-twenties, already known to police, rams a car into a crowd and shatters a community. How many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilization in a new direction? “

‘No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.’

EU citizens voting against mass migration.

“And more and more all over Europe, they're voting for political leaders who promise to put an end to out-of-control migration. […] Contrary to what you might hear a couple mountains over in Davos, the citizens of all of our nations don't generally think of themselves as educated animals or as interchangeable cogs of a global economy. And it's hardly surprising that they don't want to be shuffled about or relentlessly ignored by their leaders. It is the business of democracy to adjudicate these big questions at the ballot box.”

‘And speaking up and expressing opinions isn't election interference.’

A call for Democracy.

“Even when people express views outside your own country, and even when those people are very influential. And trust me, I say this with all humor, if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg's scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk. But what German democracy, what no democracy, American, German, or European will survive, is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief, are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.

Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There's no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don't.”