In a stark and unapologetically critical address, US Vice President J.D. Vance has sounded the alarm on what he believes is the gravest threat facing Europe-not Russia, not China, but Europe itself. Speaking during an April 3 interview with Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt, Vance condemned the European Union’s political direction, economic choices, and cultural shifts, warning that they are steadily eroding the continent’s stability from within.

“We have to appreciate that the greatest threat to Europe is not China or Russia,” said Vance. “The greatest threat to Europe is from within. It’s migration policies that destroy the fundamental cultural bedrock of Europe. It’s economic policies that make them less competitive.”

This is not the first time Vance has publicly challenged the prevailing narratives surrounding global security and Western unity. At February’s Munich Security Conference, he had already cautioned European leaders that the most pressing dangers might not lie in Eastern Europe’s war zones, but rather in Brussels’ own bureaucratic halls.

But his latest remarks have elevated the rhetoric-taking direct aim at the European Union’s stance on migration, defense spending, and treatment of political dissent, all of which he sees as clear markers of democratic decay.

Vance’s strongest criticisms were aimed at what he perceives as a catastrophic mismanagement of migration in Europe-policies which he claims are dissolving Europe’s cultural identity and undermining social cohesion.

Since the migrant crisis of 2015, the EU has struggled to establish a coherent and unified asylum policy. Countries like Germany and Sweden opened their doors........

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