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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on February 15, 2025 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)AFTER THE “ROOKIE MISTAKES” of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in Brussels, the insults and intrusions into Germany’s election hurled by Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference, and the kowtowing of Secretary of State Marco Rubio to his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov during “peace negotiations” in Riyadh and, …

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The Munich Security Conference, an annual event this year between 14 and 16 February, was the scenario chosen by the US government to put its letters on the table. Vice President J. D. Vance said everything Europeans have not wanted to hear for many years: he condemned the war policy of the European Union (EU), made visible the divisions of the bloc around Ukraine and threw a cable at Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump’s Vice President added that “the…