He proclaimed nothing less than geopolitical revolution—and a reckoning with the question of Western identity.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Friday took a swipe at European governments for what he described as their censorship of free speech and their political opponents, while largely avoiding the question of how to resolve the Ukraine war.

The day after Vance’s lecture, the president of the United States declared himself a national savior who doesn’t have to worry about little things like laws when he’s busy saving the country. Whatever inspired that tweet—which,