According to the German chancellor, “new alliances of autocracies are forming against us and attacking liberal democracy as a way of life,” with supposed threats to the status quo simultaneously coming “from within.” Vance also said that over the past several decades, Washington had excessively focused on “soft power,” and gotten into the habit of “meddling in foreign country affairs,” even when they had “very little to do with core American interests.” He pledged that President Donald Trump’s administration would make a clean break from those approaches. Putin also claimed that the very concept of democracy was in decline in the West, citing the example of Romania, where the country’s top court annulled the results of the presidential election last year, citing fraud and foreign meddling.
Author: RT
Published at: 2025-10-05 19:51:13
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