I watched a bunch of videos to see various EU politician's reactions to Vance's speech.
Main things I noticed:
- They always deflect from there being any internal issues and that the US should stay out of their business
- Russia, Russia, Russia
- Zero mention of what JD said about Romanian election at all, they don't even want to bring it up
- Zero mention of immigration
- They want to raise their defense spending, but their messaging says that they will not do this while taking away from any social programs (so where does the money come from? no one seems to know.)
- They're big mad that they're not being involved in the discussions with Russia and Ukraine
- No mention of not paying % of GDP for NATO spending for decades
- Mostly deflecting and gaslighting
- They're defending "democracy" from far right wing parties, they will not work with the right wing, and expect _all_ parties to do the same
- Still on the J6 NPC points, Trump doesn't care about democracy because he pardoned the J6 people, etc.
TL;DR: Tons of cope, no actual policy