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Since I am not a full-time political commentator (I still have to work with my hands during the daytime), I wasn’t able to react to J.D. Vance’s recent remarks in Munich as quickly as I would have liked. Still, what the new vice president said there on February 14 is worth paying attention to. And for someone who usually fills his website with predictions of a gloomy future, it is quite nice to be able to write something upbeat and optimistic for a change.
The Munich Security Conference has been held annually since 1963 and is a place for senior government officials from a variety of (mostly European) countries to discuss their military and foreign policies. Probably the most significant year for the conference was 2007, when Vladimir Putin came and spoke about how Russia was being disrespected, how it would never accept a subordinate role in the unipolar world order that the United States was trying to lead, and how eastward NATO expansion was a serious mistake.
The ability to listen to someone, and think hard about what the world looks like from his point of view — even if that person’s moral vision is very different from yours — is one of the marks of a…
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