I just came back home from a business trip to Lithuania - this was before Vance's speech. MAGA people have no idea how determined people are up there to never give in a inch to Putin, and how deep and irreversible their hatred for Russia is.

They're more than ready and willing to get into a hot war against Putin, and know that the rest of the Baltics, including Finland, as well as Poland, feel the same.

I have always defended MAGA's position that the US should stop paying for NATO and that Europe must get its shit together and protect its own borders. This is also the sort of jolt that we need to rebuild our industrial capabilities.

I doubt very much Trump is willing to go as far as totally getting out of Europe, but if he did it would be a blessing in disguise.

The unfortunate consequence is that as we are already seeing, Trump causes a deep rejection among the European populace. So, far from causing a generalized change in leadership in Europe, he will contribute to consolidate the current one.

The Eurocrats and their media cronies are gloating like ever with their phony condemnation of Vance's speech, which is a true oxygen balloon for them. Ditto for Musk.

If they wanted to give the AfD in Germany "one last little boost" to win, to give an example, they've achieved the exact oppoaite. Same in France if they hoped to get rid of Macron any time soon.