r/politics • u/huffpost ✔ HuffPost • 2d ago
JD Vance Bungles Basic History While Talking Russia-Ukraine Negotiations
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-world-war-2-russia-ukraine_n_68ab4784e4b0434e01af8c5a?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main51
u/The_Glum_Reaper 2d ago
Not 'bungling'. Lying.
The guy lies as easily as it breathes, switching allegiances as easily as a chameleon switches colors. But, with greater sociopathy.
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u/droans Indiana 2d ago
Right - this isn't a "mistake".
Compromises are what led to WWII. Don't worry about Germany's invasion of Poland, Hitler will stop there. Irredentism is okay - Italy is just taking control of ethnic Italian areas. We don't want to get involved in that kind of conflict and it won't lead to a bigger war. Sign the Munich Agreement, Hitler will be appeased if we give him Czechoslovakia. Do you want to enter a bloody war with no end?!
If we go back further, I'm sure he'll also tell us about how the Compromise of 1850 prevented the Civil War from being even bloodier.
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u/Agressive-toothbrush 2d ago
He knows history, he is choosing to distort history in order to push Russian talking points.
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u/Inevitable-Ad9760 2d ago
Correct. He is a very smart and well-educated man. He poorly presented his assigned lines in this farce.
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u/pomonamike California 2d ago
I teach high school history. “Unconditional Surrender” is literally a vocab phrase universal to teaching WWII.
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u/fairoaks2 2d ago
Which state? Oklahoma is #50. The only reason some of our citizens can spell the State name is because it’s a song.
You can actually see them sing it as they write.
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u/babathejerk 2d ago
JD "Neville Chamberlain" Vance never studied world history or he would get that appeasement does not work with megalomaniac dictators.
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u/dkromd30 2d ago
He’s not bungling anything. He studied law at Yale; dude knows this historical fact.
He’s spewing rhetoric for the dumb.
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u/WhiskeredAristocat 2d ago
As the wife of an attorney, you'd be surprised how many morons exist in the legal profession. It's like high school everywhere, just with different cliques depending on your profession.
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u/Specialist-Clock-914 2d ago
I’m in Finance and it’s the same thing. I mean there’s only so many smart people and the rest are either average or dumb. I think most white collar jobs have the same thing going on. The scary part is when you realize this rule applies across so many industries that really impact your life and they’re all just as clueless as yourself.
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u/AdFluffy9286 2d ago
Idk, you'd be surprised how stupid some Ivy League graduates can be. Best example: Jared Kusher went to Harvard.
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u/huffpost ✔ HuffPost 2d ago
From reporter Kelby Vera:
Vice President JD Vance fumbled some very textbook facts of world history while talking foreign policy on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.”
During the interview, the Yale Law School alum defended President Donald Trump’s decision to entertain Russia’s terms for a peace deal with Ukraine by claiming all wars end in compromise.
Link to the full article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-world-war-2-russia-ukraine_n_68ab4784e4b0434e01af8c5a?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main
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u/Infamous_Employer_85 2d ago
"This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
LOL
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u/Specialist-Clock-914 2d ago
I mean after dropping an atom bomb, people are usually more apt to negotiate
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u/Inevitable-Ad9760 2d ago
J.ust D.ance Vance, like Puppet stooge you volunteered to be. He sold his soul for power but his footprint in history will be lightweight but a shame for his family for eternity. That's his real hillbilly elegy.
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u/OhGodSoManyQuestions 2d ago edited 2d ago
He is installing the new fact blocker slogan in the MAGA base. This will be repeated a billionfold by propaganda. Coming soon - out of the mouth of half-wit drunkle near you. And blocking all factual information on the subject, as it was engineered to do. They're good at this evil stuff.
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u/HellaTroi California 2d ago
We have an administration of idiots.
Those who don't know history have no business running our country.
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u/Tesattaboy 2d ago
Why was Trump giving Epstein so much money ... 4700 transfers up to a billion dollars worth. Did Ghislaine offer any information to this? Let me guess the Trump lawyer didn't go down that avenue.
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u/Inner-Detail-553 2d ago
Of course he knows better. He’s just lying
The wording he uses is truly amazing though: wars “get settled”. Sure buddy, sure. The guys at Normandy sure did some world class “settling”
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