United States Vice President JD Vance will not meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Munich Security Conference.

Axar.az reports that citing Politico, given how significantly geopolitical events have shifted since — notably with U.S. President Donald Trump completely sidelining Europe to discuss a Ukraine peace plan and its terms with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin — and considering that Scholz is the leader of the host country, the lack of a meeting with Vance is striking.

Vance’s team said a meeting had been planned but didn’t occur because of a scheduling conflict on the German side.

A former U.S. official said Vance had never planned to meet with Scholz in Munich as his plans were being finalized in late January and early February, even as meetings were booked with less senior officials such as British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Merz.

“We don’t need to see him, he won’t be chancellor long,” was how the official described the Vance team's approach.

“It is disrespectful toward Germany,” said a German official not from Scholz’s party. “I can't stand Scholz but he is still our chancellor. But it fits … the Trump administration doesn't care about its allies.”