US Vice President JD Vance vented at European leaders Friday, telling them that the biggest threat to their security was “from within,” rather than China and Russia.

"If your democracy can be destroyed by a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising ... then it wasn’t very strong to begin with," the vice president told European leaders Friday.

A former US envoy to Russia, Michael McFaul, on Friday condemned the speech Vice-President JD Vance made at the security conference in Munich, Germany, where he criticised the lack of values in Europe.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius responded to U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance's criticism of European democracy on Friday at the Munich Security Conference. "Democracy does not mean that a vociferous minority will automatically be right,

Germany’s defense minister has pushed back hard against U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s complaints about the state of democracy in Europe

Vice President JD Vance delivered a blistering speech at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, warning European leaders that internal threats to democracy—such as censorship, election cancellations,