section_path: Vice presidency (2025–present)/Munich Security Conference
section_name: Munich Security Conference
paragraph_text: Munich Security Conference
  
  In his February 2025 speech at the Munich Security Conference (MSC), partially due to what he said were examples in Romania, England, Scotland, and Germany, Vance called "the threat from within" his biggest concern in terms of security for Europe, "not Russia, not China".
  
  Several media outlets regarded the speech as a turning point in European Union–United States relations along with President Trump's telephone conversation with President of Russia Vladimir Putin. Some called it a declaration of "ideological war" and " culture war " against the United States' European allies, and a "wrecking ball" to the decades-long status quo of transatlantic relations.