The US vice president says changing demographics could alter the nature of Britain and France within 15 years
Nuclear-armed Western Europe could turn into a major security hazard for the US if the national identity of its countries goes on changing because of mass immigration, US Vice President J.D. Vance has cautioned.
According to an interview transcript released on Monday, Vance told UnHerd last week that Britain, France, and other US allies currently lack a sense of national identity and are losing cultural ties with America due to their immigration policies.
“If they let themselves be swamped by very destructive moral ideas, then you let nuclear weapons get into the hands of people who can really cause very, very serious harm to the United States,” Vance stated.
He declared that “Islamist-aligned or Islamist-adjacent individuals” are already winning local elections in Europe and said it was “absolutely” thinkable that such politicians could gain considerable national power within 15 years.
Vance said his criticism of what he called “stagnation” in Europe is meant to prompt action, pointing out the US’s kinship with European civilization.
After World War II, Britain and France developed costly independent nuclear arsenals and keep them as a matter of national pride, though both are under NATO’s nuclear deterrence.
However, increasing strains between Washington and its traditional allies have made some question US security guarantees. Last week, a senior Japanese security official told reporters that Tokyo should consider developing nuclear weapons. Such a move would need a major policy change in a nation that has maintained anti-nuclear policies since the US bombings in the final weeks of World War II.