JD Vance’s less than loving speech delivered towards the Munich Security Conference on Valentine’s Day has already received some well-earned doe-eyed appreciation; but it enjoyed rather less of an enamoured reception from his actual audience of newly affection-starved Eurocrats.

By attacking the contemporary EU as little better than a disguised reincarnation of the old Soviet Union, the US Vice-President made the conference’s chairman, Christoph Heusgen, cry like a little girl. Brutally rejected by his wannabe crush, Heusgen lamented that the presumed state of deep and everlasting union he had assumed existed between the US and EU was over, as ‘we have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore.’ Was it ever? Only between the two power-blocs’ previously near-identical, out-of-touch, heavy-petting governing elites, not between the actual people themselves in whose name the Biden-era politicians falsely claimed to govern.

Brussels hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned, however, and the reactions of certain other Europeans to Vance’s refusal to unquestioningly renew their transatlantic marriage vows were more substantial than the shedding of lovelorn tears. Leading UK broadsheet The Times carried quotes from several unnamed diplomatic sources, who observed that, by demanding EU nations stop clamping down on their own citizens’ free speech under the fake guise of ‘combatting misinformation’, Vance was aggressively attempting to interfere within the domestic politics of sovereign nations abroad.

‘This is actively advocating and building an extremist [sic – they mean ‘democratic’] alliance across the Atlantic,’ said one. ‘They are meddling in European democracy [again, sic] and they are willing to turn it in their direction. We knew the Kremlin did this but up to now we’d never seen the White House try and do it here, let alone in Germany.’

Really? You had ‘never seen’ a previous US government try ‘meddling in European democracy’ before? You can’t have been looking very closely, then.

Hungary For Love

As Christoph Heusgen said, under the Biden regime, Washington and Brussels shared a ‘common value base’—apart from all those many continental voters and nations who did not share this same identikit set of leftist moral values, who had to be made to do so by means perhaps best described as ‘meddling in European democracy’.

The main nation targeted for a Dresden-style campaign of liberal love-bombing was Hungary, whose conservative-minded—and repeatedly democratically elected, by landslide margins—Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was somehow deemed to be ‘illegitimate’ by Democrat-run America. Back in 2020 Orbán had openly hoped for a Trump victory over Biden, due to the ‘diplomacy built on moral imperialism’ the Democrats consistently employed against Orbán whenever they won, in terms of repeatedly attempting to push the Prime Minister into adopting left-wing pro-trans and open borders policies against the majority of his own electorate’s express prior wishes.

‘The main nation targeted for a Dresden-style campaign of liberal love-bombing was Hungary’

For making such a selfish wish, the US Democrats condemned Orbán for the sin of…yes, meddling in another country’s democracy. If so, it was only in an act of pure self-defence.

During the 2022 Hungarian elections, Biden’s Washington did rather more than fly out the Vice-President to make a nasty speech and make the Orbánistas cry. Instead, via a complex money-laundering-type scam, organizations such as the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) allegedly began channelling cash to left-wing Hungarian opposition parties (and indeed left-wing parties in other identified ‘Key Battlefield States’ where there was a danger non-liberals might occasionally win, such as Poland and Italy) at second-hand. Strange how the EU failed to in any way condemn this particular act of hidden diplomatic subterfuge.

Ministry of Queer

Neither did the EU bother to condemn several less clandestine acts of diplomatic interference in Hungarian politics from a man infinitely more outspoken in his contempt for European democracy than JD Vance. As his Ambassador to Budapest, President Biden contemptuously chose to appoint one David Pressman, apparently on the main basis that he was an open homosexual, proud gay dad, and obsessive queer crusader: as one critic aptly put it, ‘an activist, not a diplomat’.     

How so? Well, Hungary under Orbán has a distinctly dismissive attitude towards unwanted alien US imports like trans-mania and queer extremism. Thus, by deliberately appointing a rainbow fanatic to the role of Ambassador, the Biden administration was essentially goading the Hungarian government and people, every bit as much as if an antisemitic government in the UK had decided to appoint Jeremy Corbyn as Ambassador to Israel.

Pressman let it be known that, now he had landed there, Hungary should immediately rewrite its own constitution to change the legal definition of marriage away from representing purely ‘the union of a man and a woman’. He also agitated for Budapest’s annual Gay Pride Day—an event which would hardly be allowed at all in a true totalitarian anti-queer dictatorship like Pressman hyperbolically lied Hungary was—to be transformed into a new Gay Pride Month. He even accused Hungarian media and officials of ‘twisting love into hate’ and ‘integrity into depravity’ by failing to bend to his agenda, something which would only ‘erode the liberties of the Hungarian people’.

‘Hungary should immediately rewrite its own constitution to change the legal definition of marriage’

By this, of course, Pressman meant their ‘liberty’ to do whatever he and his foreign government told the Hungarian people to do, sharpish.

Pressman didn’t just engage in generically critical speeches, like JD Vance did at Munich. He made specific ‘recommendations’ about domestic Hungarian policy, and how they should run their own elections. He openly backed a unified opposition, in which challenger parties would all gang up against Orbán to kick him out, and spoke out against Hungary’s National Sovereignty Law, which forbids external interference in its own elections. Hmm. Wonder what Ambassador Pressman and NED could have had against that particular measure?

Undiplomatic Language

To Pressman, none of this could possibly ever be considered interference in Hungarian democracy, but purely benign attempts ‘to pull us closer together—not to push us apart’, by which he seems to have meant ‘attempts to forcibly transform you into us’, a kind of forced gay-conversion therapy in reverse.

Pressman dressed up his efforts as being merely about ‘shared core values’ once again, but they were no such thing. If Budapest and Washington did indeed possess ‘shared’ values on things like gay marriage, why was Pressman having to try and pressure Hungary into adopting gay marriage at all? Surely, if the two nations’ core moral values really were ‘shared’ here, Hungary would have had such a measure in place already anyway? Orbán was quite correct: this really was just US Democrat ‘moral imperialism’ at work yet again.

In March 2024 Pressman gave a speech directly comparable to JD Vance’s own recent one, generously marking 25 years of Hungary’s NATO membership by repeatedly insulting his hosts in their own capital city. Lambasting Viktor Orbán’s public desire for a Trump victory later that November, Pressman called this ‘dangerously unhinged anti-American rhetoric’, rather than a rational wish to be rid of unelected queer outside colonisers like him ceaselessly interfering in the PM’s own sovereign affairs.

‘It seems the main true “shared core value” between the under-siege leftist lovers of Washington and Brussels is one called “hypocrisy”’

In words truly beyond all satire, Pressman warned Orbán that ‘Who leads the United States government—or any government—is a question for the people of that country alone to decide.’ Except in Hungary itself, obviously. ‘No doubt you’ve noticed at this point that we do not ordinarily give speeches like this in other allied countries,’ Pressman continued. ‘With other allies we engage, we collaborate, we work together, even where we have differences. Here, that doesn’t work—until we act.’ Translation: ‘Other EU countries just do exactly what we tell them to! Here we have to go to all the trouble of funnelling money into funding opposition parties on the sly!’

And now, at long, long last, with JD Vance’s chasteningly loveless Valentine’s Day Massacre over in Munich, the geopolitical boot is on the other foot. A Republican US government is attempting to influence European affairs in a right-wing, rather than a left-wing, direction for once, and the left-wing dictatorship in disguise who call themselves the European Union do not like it one little bit. But, given their complete and total failure to stand up for the sovereign rights of Hungary when an earlier incarnation of Uncle Sam was doing literally the same thing to Viktor Orbán, how can they legitimately complain?

It seems the main true ‘shared core value’ between the under-siege leftist lovers of Washington and Brussels is one called ‘hypocrisy’. Well, they do say that love is blind.

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