you should read #JDVance's speech on how EU should not be a *permanent security vassal* of the United States.
BUT when JD Vance says so,does he think EU should be *independent* from the US military-industrial complex and its forever wars? NOT at all
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250415-vance-urges-europe-not-to-be-us-vassal

Vance urges Europe not to be US 'vassal'
US Vice President JD Vance hailed his country's transatlantic alliances, striking a more positive note, but in an interview urged European states to show greater independence.
FRANCE 24first of all, it is indeed beautiful how JD Vance treats as servants the EU vassals who aided and abetted one of the most heinous crimes of the 21st century: the #IraqWar
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250415-vance-urges-europe-not-to-be-us-vassal

Vance urges Europe not to be US 'vassal'
US Vice President JD Vance hailed his country's transatlantic alliances, striking a more positive note, but in an interview urged European states to show greater independence.
FRANCE 24and among the servants who aided and abetted one of the most heinous crimes of the 21st century (the #IraqWar),I have to mention the #Berlusconi government and right-wing Italian media: they should be investigated by the #InternationalCriminalCourt
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/03ROME2045_a.html
will there ever be anyone who file a complaint to the #ICC about the way #Italy under #Berlusconi's government assisted Bush in its criminal invasion of Iraq:600,000 innocent civilians killed+9.2 million refugees and displaced persons +the rise of ISIS?
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/03ROME2045_a.html
but let's focus on JD Vance, what Trump wants is certainly NOT for the EU *security vassals* of the U.S. to free themselves. they want the burden of U.S. wars to weigh much more heavily on the shoulders of EU. The vassals must spend more on wars & weapons
In JD Vance's vision, EU *vassals* must be more *independent* in the sense that they must have more weapons of their own, purchased from the US, of course. In the name of arms interoperability in the US-vassal alliance
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250415-vance-urges-europe-not-to-be-us-vassal

Vance urges Europe not to be US 'vassal'
US Vice President JD Vance hailed his country's transatlantic alliances, striking a more positive note, but in an interview urged European states to show greater independence.
FRANCE 24