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As is tradition, Greece, as the birthplace of the Games, entered the parade of athletes first and were followed by other countries in alphabetical order in Italian. Team USA walked into the stadium after Venezuela around 4 p.m. ET and were met with cheers—and a smattering of boos—from the crowd in Milan. When Vance and his wife, Usha, were shown on screen, the stadium erupted with boos.
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Leading up to the opening ceremony, demonstrators in Milan protested against the deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as part of the U.S. security apparatus at the 2026 Winter Olympics. The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and
the Italian government recently said no ICE agents are providing security for Team USA.
Athletes from Israel also appeared to receive boos from the crowd, similar to the reception they received in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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The United States Vice President and his wife, Usha, attended the opening ceremony in Milan on Friday evening.
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The "crowd" at the Olympics would be mostly those who can afford to attend and are interested in sports. I doubt this is a fully representative sampling of Europe,. or "the world".
It does suggest that the USA spending blood and treasure to end the TWO WORLD WARS that Europe started, and then cover much of the costs of rebuilding afterward was a waste.
Also why it is good for USA interest to pull out of NATO.
That many in the world have turned into ungrateful, parasitic socialists does mean the USA has failed Europe or "The World".
Just the opposite.
Along with providing foreign aid for decades that outdid the amount from the non-Communist nations, we've recently provided GPS and the internet. Yet many ingrates, there and here, fail to at least appreciate such.
Image how the World would look if the USA spent the past 100 years being truly isolationist and uninvolved.
