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Brace for a ‘political revolution’ in Europe, UK’s Nigel Farage says after Vance’s speech in Munich
Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing Reform UK party, believes a «political revolution» will sweep through Europe as it did the U.S. with the re-election of President Donald Trump.
In answer to questions about controversial comments made by Vice President JD Vance during the Munich Security Conference last week, Farage told Fox News Digital in an interview he «loved every word of what he said» and argued Vance was «speaking ahead of his time.»
«He was talking to an audience of a European political class who are on the way out,» Farage said at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London this week. «It’s a political revolution, and it swept through America. And it’s going to sweep through the rest of Europe too.»
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during an interview with Jordan Peterson at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference at ExCel London, at the Royal Victoria Dock in east London Feb. 18, 2025. (Ben Whitley/PA Images via Getty Images)
Vance, who argued the biggest threat facing Europe was not from Russia or China, but rather from alleged government efforts to silence freedom of speech, drew international rebuke from some who argued his comments were misleading or inaccurate. Others praised his comments, including those who attended the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday, where he was reportedly given a standing ovation.
Farage said Vance reminds him of where he was a decade ago when he served in the European Parliament and remembered «getting up and giving speeches and being screamed at and shouted at and hated.»
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Nigel Farage speaks next to Donald Trump during a campaign rally in October 2020 in Arizona. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
Farage left the European Parliament in 2020 after the UK’s decision to leave the European Union under the 2016 Brexit referendum, which he ardently supported as leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP).
He then launched the Brexit Party in 2019, before renaming it Reform UK, which he told Fox News Digital has leaped in popularity over the last seven months and is «leading consistently in the national opinion polls.»
«It is quite remarkable. It’s a reflection, I think, on what we call the Uni-Party,» he added, arguing there are no differences between the UK’s Labor Party, which is currently in power under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and the Conservative Party.
Britain Prime Minister Keir Starmer addresses members at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, England, Tuesday. (AP)
«We’re upbeat, we’re optimistic, we’ve got a good vibe, and we believe, with the right leadership, we can and will turn this country around,» he said.
According to a report by Reuters, Reform UK has just five members of parliament out of 650. But members of the party came in second place in roughly 100 races during the last election in July 2024.
The report noted the party was «benefiting from a growing anti-establishment» sentiment rising across Europe by which both far-right and far-left parties are seeing increasing support.
«We’re in societal decline,» Farage said, pointing to statistics relating to knife crime, immigration and the economy. «Now, can it be fixed? Not under this government.»
CLACTON-ON-SEA, ENGLAND – JUNE 4: Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage drinks a pint of beer before speaking to supporters as he launches his election candidacy at Clacton Pier on June 4, 2024 in Clacton-on-Sea, England. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
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«They’re talking us into a recession. We’re in for a couple of very, very tough years, but the turnaround will come at the next election,» he added.
The U.K. has been dipping in and out of technical recessions since 2023 and has struggled to economically recover from the coronavirus pandemic, a fact that likely cost the Conservative Party its 14-year reign to the Labor Party in July.
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Houthis target US fighter jet, drone with SAM missiles for first time
Houthi rebels for the first time fired surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) at a U.S. F-16 fighter jet on Feb. 19, three senior U.S. defense officials tell Fox News.
The jet was flying off the coast of Yemen over the Red Sea when the SAM was fired. The missile did not strike the jet.
Houthis fired another SAM at an American MQ-9 Reaper drone that the U.S. was flying over Yemen outside Houthi-controlled areas on Feb. 19.
This is the first time the Houthis have fired a SAM missile at an American F16 fighter jet, a significant escalation in the ongoing military interactions between the Iranian-backed group and the U.S. Navy and Air Force, according to senior U.S. defense officials.
Houthi supporters march to mark the anniversary of Yemeni unity in Sanaa, Yemen, on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
US NAVY SHIPS REPEL ATTACK FROM HOUTHIS IN GULF OF ADEN
Under the Biden administration the U.S. military defended its warships patrolling the Red Sea and Bab al Mandab Strait, escorting and preventing attacks on commercial ships by the Houthis following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in Israel by Hamas.
The Houthi attacks began shortly after the Israeli military responded to Oct. 7 in Gaza. U.S. Central Command then escalated its attacks on the Houthis to degrade infrastructure and weapons-storage facilities.
Now there is a policy debate at the highest levels of the U.S. military about what is the best way to counter the Houthis, which the Trump administration has put back on the State Department’s terror list.
The debate now is whether to carry out a more traditional counterterrorism approach to the Houthis, with persistent strikes targeting the individuals planning and carrying out the ongoing attacks, or whether to take a more defensive approach and keep going after Houthi infrastructure and weapons-storage facilities.
President Donald Trump; Houthi fighters riding military vehicles. (Getty Images)
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A counterterrorism approach would be a significant – and, some say, expensive – escalation at a time when military resources, including MQ-9 Reaper drones, are being diverted to the southern border.
The policy decision will eventually have to be decided by the White House.
Senior military leaders believe that it could be only a matter of time before a Houthi missile hits a U.S. Navy vessel, which could cause devastating injuries and damage to the aircraft carriers and destroyers that have been patrolling the Red Sea since shortly after the Oct. 7 attacks.
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. A possible attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday targeted a ship further away from nearly all of the previous assaults they have launched in the Gulf of Aden, officials said, potentially part of a widening escalation by the group. (AP Photo)
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So far, the Navy has shot down or intercepted all of the missiles and drones fired at their warships by the Houthis, but sometimes the interceptions have occurred seconds before impact.
There have been numerous close calls, and the U.S. Navy in essence has been at war in the Red Sea for the past two years, facing near-constant attacks by Houthi ballistic and cruise missiles and drones, and firing expensive SM-2 and SM-3 missiles to counter the Houthi harassment.
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