“The city has new sheriff”, says Vance for Trump in Munich, tells Europeans not to fear”

The United States may disagree with Germany's views, it continues, but “we will fight for your right to offer them”.

Vance says he anticipates that topics such as defence budgets will be discussed at the conference in the coming days and tells those gathered that the US believes European countries should play a higher <x0-power” in the future of the continent, the BBC writes.

He later says it is becoming less clear what Europe is protecting.

“What is the positive vision that revives this security compact”, he asks.

JD Vance then went on to ask European leaders to embrace what your people say, even when it's surprising, even when you don't agree on”.

This, for me, is the great magic of democracy. It's not in these stone buildings or beautiful hotels. It's not even in the big institutions we built together as a joint society. To believe in democracy means to understand that each of our citizens has wisdom and that there is a voice of”, he said.

He ends up quoting Pope John Paul II, “one of the most extraordinary champions of democracy on this continent or any other”, from his inaugural preaching in 1978: “

We should not be afraid of our people, even when this expresses views that disagree with their leadership”, it concludes.