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Slavi Vassilev: Modern liberals and Euro-Atlantics are fierce Stalinists

Europeans are not on the map, said the political scientist

Feb 15, 2025 20:33 109

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Modern liberals, Euro-Atlantics, are actually fierce Stalinists, who, under the pretext of protecting freedom and democracy, methodically destroy it. This opinion was expressed by political scientist Slavi Vassilev on Facebook.

"Focus" published his words without editorial intervention:

"I listened to the speech of US Vice President James David Vance at the Munich Security Conference. For those who do not know, this is a prestigious informal international forum dedicated to security issues. Since the forum is held in a hotel in Munich, Bayerischer Hof, places are very limited, and usually only selected high-ranking state leaders attend.

By the way, it is striking that from the Bulgarian side, despite the presence of a regular government, Rumen Radev is present, and not the new prime minister. This clearly shows "who’s who", but that is not the topic.

Just for information, at this forum in 2007. Putin gave the speech in which he announced the turn of Russian foreign policy from a unipolar to a multipolar world, the consequences of which are felt to this day. That is, the forum is important.

The most anticipated moment of this year's edition of the conference was Vance's speech, because it announced the first touches of the new American foreign policy, especially towards Europe.

I will not make qualifications for Vance's speech, nor will I do a wordy analysis. Instead, I will quote a few key passages from the speech, so that you can draw your own conclusions.

Before quoting, I will only add that on the topic of Ukraine, Vance said a single sentence. I believe that we will achieve a “reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine“. (i.e. “reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine“).

And here it is important to note that the newly elected American vice president delivers a 19-minute speech in which he mentions the war in Ukraine only once, in a single sentence. And this is happening on the eve of the negotiations to resolve the crisis, at the highest European forum dedicated to security issues?

This, friends, shows the importance of the continent in world politics. So, a short lyrical digression. This is the result of the policy of Eurohawks, such as Ursula Von Der Leyen and Kaia Kalas.

For this, the subsequent speech of the German Foreign Minister sharply criticizes Vance. Because the Europeans are not on the map.

But what exactly did Vance say in his 19-minute speech, if he does not talk about Ukraine?

I will quote the key sentence in English, after which I will translate.

"The threat that I worry the most about vis-a vis Europe it’s not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared by the United States of America. “

"The threat, says Vance, that worries me most about Europe is not Russia, it is not China, or any other external factor. What worries me most is the threat coming from within. The retreat of Europe from its most fundamental values is the main threat to Europe“ according to the American vice president.

That is why the Bulgarian Euro-Atlantics, and their European Von Der Leyen counterparts, are equivalent to the most ferocious Stalinists of the late 1950s. And everyone foams at the mouth when they hear Trump, or Vance.

Here are the examples that Vance gave to the increasingly silent audience at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel, which represents the “la crème de la crème" of the same political elite that Vance quite directly accuses of authoritarian tendencies, without using the word directly.

"I was amazed to see, says J.D. Vance, how a former European Commissioner said on television with great satisfaction that the Romanian government had annulled the elections (note: Editor's note: The Romanian Constitutional Court annulled the elections because a Kremlin campaign on TikTok influenced citizens!?!). He (the same European Commissioner) warned that if things did not go according to plan, the same thing could happen in Germany. "

"This - Vance continues - is shocking to the American public. For years, we have been told that all of our foreign policy, everything we fund and support, is in the name of our shared democratic values. Everything from our policy on Ukraine to our digital censorship is designed to protect democracy. But when we see European courts overturn elections and senior politicians threaten to overturn future ones, we ask ourselves whether we are living up to the standards that define us.“

Vance gives more examples of the madness that is happening in Europe today, and all in the name of protecting the values that supposedly define us. That is why I say that modern liberals, Euro-Atlantics, are actually fierce Stalinists who, under the pretext of protecting freedom and democracy, methodically destroy it. And many people are joining them. Look at who criticized Vance's speech in Bulgaria, and you will recognize part of the cohort.

That is, the biggest problem of Europe, according to the American vice president, are, to put it bluntly, the European liberals who, for pennies, or a little more than that, are ready to sell Europe, to cancel elections, to impose censorship, just to destroy the opposition.

Because Stalinists do not tolerate a different opinion, let alone an opposition".