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Panelists on CNN's State of the Union sparred over two top Trump administration officials — Vice President J.D. Vance and adviser Elon Musk — "flirting with Nazism" following the vice president's eyebrow-raising speech at last week's Munich Security Conference.

On Friday, Vance claimed Germany should not shun its far-right political parties.

"Europeans, the people, have a voice," Vance said. "You can embrace what your people tell you, even when it's surprising, even when you don't agree."...

On the eve of the Munich Security Conference, when defense leaders meet from around the globe to discuss strengthening alliances, European leaders are more concerned than ever about the reliability of the Trump administration, according to a report.

Since he took office, Trump has "insisted NATO members massively boost their defense spending, dismissed the U.S. military’s role in Europe, frozen foreign aid, advocated taking over Greenland, treated Russia as a negotiating partner and threatened to pull support from Ukraine," wrote Paul McLeary and Jacopo Barigazzi in a piece for Politico Thursday.

Now his administration is set to come face-to-face with their European counterparts on Friday. "And while allies have experience navigating the disruptions and uncertainties of the U.S. president, this administration is a more expansionist and aggressive one than they’ve faced before," wrote McLeary and Barigazzi....

The head of environmental pressure group Greenpeace warned Friday the world faced a "perfect storm" of crises and was heading for what he termed a crisis of "epic proportions."