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JD Vance Bungles Basic History While Talking About Russia And Ukraine

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Vice President JD Vance fumbled some very basic facts on world history while talking foreign policy on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.”

During the interview, the Yale Law School graduate defended President Donald Trump’s decision to entertain Russia’s terms for a peace deal with Ukraine by claiming all wars end in compromise.

Asked by host Kristen Welker if forcing Ukraine to cede its Donbas region would signal Russia, or other world powers, could skirt the consequences of illegal land grabs, he said, “If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.”

But Vance’s examples were flat wrong.

World War II ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, two years after Italy’s fascist regime folded.

By then, Germany’s industrial centres had been decimated and Adolf Hitler had killed himself in a bunker beneath Berlin. Japan yielded after the Allies deployed a pair of nuclear bombs, killing hundreds of thousands.

World War I technically concluded with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, but at that point Germany was already defeated, having lost the Western Front and its kaiser, and had virtually no leverage at the negotiating table.

The agreement left Germany owing the Allies billions, limited its military to a mere 100,000 men, and forced it to cede 10% of its European territory as well as all its colonies.

Elsewhere during the conversation, Vance tried to claim that Russia had made “significant concessions,” like generously agreeing not to install “a puppet regime in Kyiv” and (maybe) promising not to invade again in the future.

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JD Vance Opens Up About His ‘Very Close’ DC Friendships

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There’s apparently a bromance brewing in the Capitol, and it involves JD Vance.

“I mean, I have a lot of good friends,” Vance said. “The weird thing is, you say it’s one person and then fundamentally that’s an insult to other people.”

After beating around the bush, Vance named Secretary of State Marco Rubio as someone he’s “very close” to, adding that Rubio is a “great friend” of his. He continued to say that Rubio is doing a “great job” in his current position.

Vance didn’t stop there. He then named Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, whom Vance also says is “doing a great job” in his role. Unlike Rubio, Vance and Hegseth’s friendship recently shared a pivotal experience: the two were among those who were booed and heckled during their walk through Union Station, where Vance thanked the National Guard for their service.

“The DC swamp tried to destroy Pete Hegseth, unlike anybody in the administration,” Vance claimed regarding the former Fox News host. “Whenever I see the worst people in the world try to tear a guy down, that makes me think he’s on our side.”

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JD Vance Tells Theo Von That Musk Made A ‘Huge Mistake’ Going After Trump

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Vice President JD Vance said Elon Musk made a critical error attacking President Donald Trump and his so-called Big Beautiful Bill.

“I think it’s a huge mistake for him to go after the president like that,” Vance told podcaster and comedian Theo Von in an interview released on Friday. “I think that if he and the president are in some blood feud, most importantly it’s going to be bad for the country, but I don’t think it’s going to be good for Elon, either.”

The two were taping an episode of Von’s podcast, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, as Trump and Musk publicly traded barbs on Thursday.

As Vance and Von spoke, Musk shared a post to X, formerly Twitter, accusing Trump of holding off on the release of files about late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein due to Trump being mentioned in them.

“The fucking shit-missile is in the cannon,” Von said, before reading the post aloud to Vance.

Vance acknowledged his loyalties would always be with Trump and defended the president against Musk’s accusations, saying Trump never did “anything wrong” with Epstein. Vance praised Musk’s work with the Department of Government Efficiency and suggested Musk could just be lashing out due to frustration with the political process.

“I hope that eventually Elon kind of comes back into the fold,” Vance said. “Maybe that’s not possible now, because he’s gone so nuclear.”

Vance said it’s unfair for Musk to go after Trump for the Big Beautiful Bill — arguing it’s good but not perfect — and that Congress made the bill, not Trump.

“I just think it’s a huge mistake for the world’s wealthiest man, I think one of the most transformational entrepreneurs ever, to be at this war with the world’s most powerful man, who I think is doing more to save the country than anybody— and I’m 40 years old — anybody in my lifetime,” Vance added.

Vance also addressed a post in which Musk suggested Trump should be impeached and replaced with Vance, calling it “totally insane.”

Vance wasn’t the only Trump administration official to learn of Musk’s feud with the president while taping a podcast. FBI Director Kash Patel was taping a podcast with Joe Rogan when Musk sent the Epstein post, prompting the podcast host to exclaim, “Jesus Christ, that’s a crazy thing to say.”

“I’m just staying out of the Trump-Elon thing, that’s way outside my lane,” Patel said. “I know my lane, and that ain’t it.”

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JD Vance Uses Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis To Criticize His Job As President

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Vice President JD Vance responded on Monday to Joe Biden’s new cancer diagnosis by criticising the former president’s performance in the White House and furthering claims that those close to the Democrat hid his poor health from the public.

Speaking to reporters on Air Force 2, the vice president first wished for Biden to make “the right recovery,” saying the 82-year-old’s diagnosis “sounds pretty serious.”

Vance essentially ended his empathy there, accusing Biden of doing a bad job leading the country and pinning his capacity to serve as president on his poor health.

“I will say, whether the right time to have this conversation is now or at some point in the future, we really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job,” Vance said.

“You can separate the desire for him to have the right health outcome with a recognition that, whether it was doctors or whether there were staffers around the former president, I don’t think he was able to do a good job for the American people.”

“And that’s not politics. That’s not because I disagreed with him on policy,” he continued. “That’s because I don’t think that he was in good enough health.”

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.@VP JD Vance on former President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: “We really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job…I don’t think that he was in good enough health. In some ways, I blame him less than I blame the people around him.” pic.twitter.com/0DYOd2mu4G

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Biden was diagnosed on Friday with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, which his office said has metastasised to his bones. Doctors diagnosed him after finding a prostate nodule while looking into the former president’s urinary issues earlier this year.

The Democrat’s age and health came front and centre last year after his concerning presidential debate performance while seeking re-election. Biden eventually stepped down to allow Vice President Kamala Harris to run in his place with just months until the election. Harris lost to Donald Trump, leading many Democrats to blame Biden’s initial persistence for their party’s loss.

Biden recently faced renewed bipartisan concerns regarding his health amid the upcoming release of “Original Sin,” a book by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson that claims Biden aides intentionally hid the extent of his physical and cognitive decline from the public.

The allegations have led Republicans like Donald Trump Jr. — and apparently Vance — to baselessly accuse Biden and those close to him of hiding his cancer while he was still president. Trump Jr. faced backlash earlier on Monday for spreading, without evidence, a conspiracy that Biden was likely diagnosed while in the White House and that his wife, Jill Biden, helped keep it from the public.

“In some ways I blame him less than I blame the people around him. And why didn’t the American people have a better sense of his health picture? Why didn’t the American people have more accurate information about what he was actually dealing with?” said Vance, who serves as vice president to the man whose cognitive health has repeatedly come into question due to the 78-year-old’s frequent and incoherent ramblings, his memory issues and his impulsivity with respect to major political decisions.

“This is serious stuff. This is the guy who carries around the nuclear football for the world’s largest nuclear arsenal,” Vance continued. “This is not child’s play, and we can pray for good health, but also recognise that if you’re not in good enough health to do the job, you shouldn’t be doing the job.”

Cancers that have spread to other parts of the body are normally difficult to treat — but because Biden’s cancer appears hormone-sensitive, according to his office, he may be able to treat it by depriving the tumors of hormones. Doctors have said that, while metastasised prostate cancer is incurable, men receiving such treatment can expect to live for an average of five more years.

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