US Vice President JD Vance has called on European states to show greater independence, urging them not to be US “vassals.” He also said EU governments could have done more to oppose Washington over the Iraq War.

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    11 days ago

    What exactly could Europe have done to stop the Bush administration from invading Iraq on the completely unfounded pretense that Saddam Hussein had WMD’s?

    Threaten to stop buying US weapons? Dump US bonds? Impose sanctions? At the very least not send troops? Europe wasn’t vassalized enough by America that they couldn’t do anything but watch as America created the refugee crisis of the century in their backyard (which, I should say, is still blowing up in their faces).