WATCH: J.D. Vance Hits Out at Ongoing European De-Industrialisation

Vice President J.D. Vance has just finished talking to Wolfgang Ischinger at the MSC’s Munich Leaders Meeting in Washington D.C., in which European industrial failure received an earful:

“There is this fear that we have when we look at some of our European friends, and I made this point at the first Munich security conference I ever went to, that when I looked at Germany 10, 15, 20 years ago one of the things that the Germans were very good about is that they were they had kept the industrial strength of their economy consistent with the first world standard of living, but now what we see in Europe is a lot of our European friends are de-industrialising at the very moment where we’re all seeing the hard power underpinning or the economic underpinning of real hard power requires very strong and powerful industry.”