Cross posting.
https://unherd.com/2025/04/jd-vance-my-message-to-europe/
I am usually not one to try and project American anxieties and pathologies into foreign policy, but it needs to be said what lies at the heart of Vance’s foreign policy ideas: pure ideological racism. And we can see a nearly fully formed Vance doctrine, which Trump is outsourcing to him because Trump finds foreign policy boring and hard.
Vance does not view European countries as allies who help defend and support the United States based on shared values, interests, and prosperity. He sees Europe as potentially a CIVILIZATIONAL ally, defined as “Christendom” and white people. This is what is behind his monomaniacal hectoring about immigration and his blatant support for anti-system European parties that are traditionally (and still are) hostile to the United States as it actually exists.
This is the exportation of identity politics on a grand scale, something they long have accused democrats of doing. This is not any sort of transactional realism.