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When JD Vance rose to speak at the Munich Security Conference this Valentine’s Day, the gathered liberal parasites expected the usual diplomatic niceties.

What they got instead was a divorce notice served in public – one that stripped bare the pretense of American-led ‘democracy’ and revealed the naked power politics beneath.

The irony was exquisite. For decades, we Europeans watched as our sovereignty was carved up between Brussels bureaucrats and Washington warmongers while an army of liberals ran interference weaponizing a culture war.

Now, in a moment of startling clarity, Vance has pulled back the curtain on the entire charade. The speech reveals what we’ve long known. The post-war order was never about democracy – it was about American imperial control, dressed up in liberal niceties.

Here was Trump’s messenger, meant to reassure Europe’s ruling class. Instead, he told uncomfortable truths about their shared sham of ‘democratic values.’

He accused Europe of being a cheating spouse. Vance’s speech exposed the rot at the heart of the post-war alliance. He didn’t defend Western democracy. He revealed their arrangement for what it truly is: a protection racket masquerading as a marriage of equals.

Vance’s assault on EU fake democratic values reveals more than he intended. Though he attacks from the right, he inadvertently exposes the fundamental fraud of the European project: a neoliberal straitjacket designed to strangle genuine democratic movements that dare challenge market fundamentalism.

The evidence is written in tear gas and broken dreams, from Greek workers watching their democracy crumble under Brussels’ dictatorship, or the French yellow vests facing tear gas for daring to protest Macron’s policies.

Take the EU’s cynical approach to migration. A perfect case study of liberal hypocrisy. The same organization that preaches human rights happily lets refugees drown while importing cheap labor to undermine workers’ wages.

Vance’s vision of NATO ‘burden-sharing’ drops all pretense. Strip away the diplomatic language and you’re left with a protection racket: pay up, or America walks.

But perhaps that’s not the threat they think it is. Why should British workers fund American military adventures while our NHS crumbles and pensioners freeze? Why should we bankrupt ourselves to maintain American military dominance?

Vance’s handwringing over Romania’s denied election conveniently forgets it was Biden’s State Department that first cried wolf about Russian interference – claims later proven false.

Vance’s offhand suggestion of a ‘reasonable settlement’ in Ukraine sent NATO hawks incandescent.

Yet strip away the righteous indignation, and what do we find? A nine-year bloodbath began with Western interference in 2014, transforming a complex civil conflict into a proxy war that fills the coffers of arms manufacturers while filling the graves of working-class families.

The same shitty elite voices that backed the Maidan coup and conveniently forgot Victoria Nuland’s infamous hot-mic moment exposing US manipulation now condemn any whisper of peace talks as ‘appeasement.’ You might ask why diplomatic solutions become heresy when Raytheon’s quarterly profits are at stake.

The arithmetic of this war is simple: dead soldiers mean living dividends, and peace is bad for business. The military-industrial complex has found its perfect forever war, fought to the last Ukrainian, funded by the Western working class, and profitable for everyone except those who are doing the dying.

And yet, for all its contradictions, it must sting that it’s a Trump government that is tearing down the globalist order and shattering the liberal consensus.

The very forces that spent years calling Trump a fascist now desperately try to prop up an outdated imperial system. It was never meant to be like this. The left should have been the ones dismantling NATO, questioning endless war, and exposing the hollow hypocrisy of ‘rules-based’ international order.

Instead, that work is now being done by conservatives in Washington, leaving liberals scrambling to defend institutions they once pretended to criticize.

The coming rupture in the Atlantic Alliance reveals the bankruptcy of both the American empire and European toxic neoliberalism.

The end of NATO’s love affair might just create space for something better: a Europe of peoples, not bankers. A world where peace isn’t equated with American domination. A Britain and Europe where democracy means more than choosing which flavor of neoliberalism we prefer.

Vance’s speech marks the end of an era. A break-up but not a tragedy. Sometimes, divorce is better than a loveless marriage. The question now is whether we’ll have the courage to build something better from the ruins of this failed relationship.

For too long, we’ve been told there’s no alternative to the American-led order. Now that order is crumbling under its own contradictions.

Our task is to ensure what replaces it serves the interests of working people, not billionaires – whether they’re in Washington, Brussels, or the City of London.

The NATO consensus is dead. Good riddance to it should have ended with the fall of the Soviet Union, not marched on to Russian borders. The real work of building genuine people’s democracy begins – now. PLEASE INSPIRE OTHERS BY SHARING OUR STORIES

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