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JD Vance has suggested that American support for NATO should be predicated on the European Union not regulating Elon Musk and his X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.

The Republican vice presidential nominee and Ohio senator claimed in an interview with YouTuber Shawn Ryan that a top EU official had threatened to arrest the billionaire if he allowed former President Donald Trump back on X.

“The leader, I forget exactly which official it was within the European Union, but sent Elon this threatening letter that basically said, ‘We’re going to arrest you if you platform Donald Trump,’ who, by the way, is the likely next president of the United States,” Vance said in the interview published last week.

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  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    4 months ago

    “I’m not going to go to some backwoods country and tell them how to live their lives,”

    So he’s not just a weird couch fucker, he’s also totally ignorant of US foreign policy over the last hundred years.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      42·
      4 months ago

      “I’m not going to go to some backwoods country and tell them how to live their lives,”

      What a weird thing for someone who served* in Iraq to say.

      *Vance served in Iraq the same way he fucks couches: from the rear.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        4 months ago

        He “served” in the PR office.

        Trying to manipulate public opinion and distort facts has been his entire career.

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      He’s an isolationist… So this comment might be true. His stance is fuck every other country, I’ve got mine.

      Just wait untill they find out many, many, many of their supply chains come from and/or run through countries kept stable only through pax americana. Doing an afghan style withdrawal on a global scale will not only fuck every other country… it will fuck them more.

      But who are we kidding, this is just rhetoric. The moment this guy feels he has the power to tell other countries what to do, he absolutely will.

  • Jumi@lemmy.world
    27·
    4 months ago

    If Trump becomes president we should embargo the US like Russia since he’s Putins lapdog

  • Konala Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    4 months ago

    While you can imagine “Tim Walz says US could support NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms”.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    551·
    4 months ago

    This is why Europe must take control of its own defense. Europe doesn’t want to be a mere vassal of the US for precisely this reason.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      2·
      4 months ago

      I have a bit of schadenfreude around this. For years, people said Europe was fine, and didn’t need to invest more in their military. “No, you silly American, we are just fine with the military we have because we don’t go invading other countries.”

      Now here we are. Thing is, I wasn’t even talking from the perspective of Europe becoming warmongers like us. I wanted Europe to be armed well enough to handle what the US has been doing, and the US can draw down its military. Then we could put that money into healthcare and schools and shit, but Europe would have to pick up the slack (and also Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, and Australia). This is still a good idea.

  • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    37·
    4 months ago

    Lol, soon he’ll ask NATO military communication to use Twitter

    what the fuck is the link between a shit platform and military alliance

  • normalexit@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 months ago

    I’m glad he is such a bad running mate. He doesn’t have a single redeeming quality… God help us if these people get the white house (again), but everyone involved seems to be trying their hardest to prevent that.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    62·
    4 months ago

    I don’t understand why the symbol of the Democratic Party is the donkey when JD Vance is a jackass every time he opens his mouth.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    NATO membership benefits US interests in so many ways, it’s ridiculous how quickly the Republicans have become a total party of quislings

    • psmgx@lemmy.world
      772·
      4 months ago

      I think it’s Musk’s backers, the Russians who helped fund the twitter acquisition, who are really taking center stage.

      Lots of talk about Europe and NATO means they’re pushing hard for those talking points.

  • dustyData@lemmy.world
    67·
    4 months ago

    The gall of saying, that entirely different culture that’s been around for longer than our country, they should have our same values, right after calling them backwoods countries. The extreme narcissist egoism is palpable and disgusting.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      4 months ago

      He didn’t call the Europeans “backwoods countries”. He called those other places that. He specifically says that European countries should be more like us, for all the white right reasons…

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        The insult is the implication. “I wouldn’t tell a backwoods country to be like us, [but we should]. So instead I will tell you that you are not like US [because I actually think that you are backwoods], and you should be like us to [so you aren’t like those backwoods countries anymore].”