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Re: President Trump 2.0
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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
One of the fun things in this calamity is watching all the Trump supporters who claimed he was anti-war twist to justify this.

To be fair, some have broken with him over this. They are calling it out, but even for them to have to wonder how gullible and stupid they were to buy that Trump was the anti-war candidate. Whereas others are just ignoring how anti-Iran intervention they were to support Trump no matter what.

Absolute marks the lot of them.
The worst offender being JD Vance who was elected on such a mandate.
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Where the hell is JD Vance?’: Why Trump’s VP is missing in action

In January 2023, JD Vance decided to let bygones be bygones and back the probable Republican presidential nominee.

His pitch to the American people was simple, as he laid out in an article for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) announcing his endorsement: “Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars.”

It was a stark indication of Mr Vance’s own political strategy. The 41-year-old former US marine, who was deployed to Iraq, had long argued against American intervention abroad, from supplying weapons to Ukraine, to the invasion of Iraq.

“American taxpayer money has continued to flow to Ukraine,” he wrote in the WSJ. “A wiser foreign policy wouldn’t have let such conduct go unnoticed.”
Three years later, sitting in the White House beside the man he once compared to Adolf Hitler, Mr Vance has been notably quiet since the president chose to launch devastating strikes on Iran, weeks after raiding Venezuela and capturing its president.

As Republicans rushed to praise the strikes Mr Vance, a prolific social media presence, was notably silent for almost 72 hours, aside from reposting official administration content.

In November 2024, Mr Vance argued explicitly against US military action in Iran.“Our interest, I think, very much is in not going to war with Iran,” he said on a podcast. “It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country.” In an April 2024 speech on the senate floor, he cited his own experience serving in Iraq as the basis for his scepticism of interventionism.
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