Michael Weiss

The idea of sending European peacekeepers to Ukraine has come from two not so random countries, the United Kingdom and France, both of which, up until quite recently, were engaged in active combat in Afghanistan on behalf of the United States, because the only time in the history of NATO that Article 5 was invoked was after 9-11.

So what's happened is now the UK press and UK parliamentarians and policymakers are seething. They think J.D. Fance, as one pundit put it, is a vice president as aggressive as he is dumb. It's one thing to have disagreements in foreign policy, to have a cordial dispute with our cousins abroad. It's another thing to piss on the graves of dead British soldiers. And that's what Vance is doing.

So what's happened is now the UK press and UK parliamentarians and policymakers are seething. They think J.D. Fance, as one pundit put it, is a vice president as aggressive as he is dumb. It's one thing to have disagreements in foreign policy, to have a cordial dispute with our cousins abroad. It's another thing to piss on the graves of dead British soldiers. And that's what Vance is doing.

So what's happened is now the UK press and UK parliamentarians and policymakers are seething. They think J.D. Fance, as one pundit put it, is a vice president as aggressive as he is dumb. It's one thing to have disagreements in foreign policy, to have a cordial dispute with our cousins abroad. It's another thing to piss on the graves of dead British soldiers. And that's what Vance is doing.

Now, he's trying furiously to wind this back saying, oh, I didn't mean the UK. I didn't mean France. I meant other countries.

Now, he's trying furiously to wind this back saying, oh, I didn't mean the UK. I didn't mean France. I meant other countries.

Now, he's trying furiously to wind this back saying, oh, I didn't mean the UK. I didn't mean France. I meant other countries.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Well, let's be direct. Which country does he refer to? Because every country that has even in principle considered being part of this Anglo-French peacekeeping force is either a NATO country and or has also fought in Afghanistan. And as far as military equipment, let's, for instance, take the Estonians, where I just was last week.

Well, let's be direct. Which country does he refer to? Because every country that has even in principle considered being part of this Anglo-French peacekeeping force is either a NATO country and or has also fought in Afghanistan. And as far as military equipment, let's, for instance, take the Estonians, where I just was last week.

Well, let's be direct. Which country does he refer to? Because every country that has even in principle considered being part of this Anglo-French peacekeeping force is either a NATO country and or has also fought in Afghanistan. And as far as military equipment, let's, for instance, take the Estonians, where I just was last week.

They have emptied their stocks of a certain kind of howitzer and given them all to Ukraine, which Ukraine is deeply grateful for. And they also suffered, I think, the highest per capita rate of casualties in Afghanistan. It's a small country, 1.3 million people. But when they joined NATO in 2004, they were serious about it. And they fought and bled and died on behalf of Americans.

They have emptied their stocks of a certain kind of howitzer and given them all to Ukraine, which Ukraine is deeply grateful for. And they also suffered, I think, the highest per capita rate of casualties in Afghanistan. It's a small country, 1.3 million people. But when they joined NATO in 2004, they were serious about it. And they fought and bled and died on behalf of Americans.

They have emptied their stocks of a certain kind of howitzer and given them all to Ukraine, which Ukraine is deeply grateful for. And they also suffered, I think, the highest per capita rate of casualties in Afghanistan. It's a small country, 1.3 million people. But when they joined NATO in 2004, they were serious about it. And they fought and bled and died on behalf of Americans.

So, I mean, this is a guy who is within the space of a few weeks dead. essentially trying to destroy the transatlantic relationship.

So, I mean, this is a guy who is within the space of a few weeks dead. essentially trying to destroy the transatlantic relationship.

So, I mean, this is a guy who is within the space of a few weeks dead. essentially trying to destroy the transatlantic relationship.

He goes to Munich and gives this speech, in effect endorsing Alternative for Germany, the far-right party that didn't do as well as people were fearing it might in the last German election, which is also considered or under suspicion as being an extremist group by Germans' own domestic security service, pissing off the Germans, including the now incoming Chancellor Merz,