{"id":172789,"date":"2025-08-24T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172789\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:35:08","slug":"jd-vance-bungles-basic-history-as-he-talks-russia-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172789\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance Bungles Basic History As He Talks Russia-Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice President JD Vance<\/a> fumbled some very textbook facts of world history while talking foreign policy on Sunday\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the interview, the Yale Law School alum defended President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> decision to entertain Russia\u2019s terms for a peace deal with Ukraine by claiming all wars end in compromise.<\/p>\n

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, \u201cIf 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s examples were flat wrong.<\/p>\n

World War II ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, two years after Italy\u2019s fascist regime folded.<\/p>\n

By then, Germany\u2019s industrial centers 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere during the conversation, Vance tried to claim that Russia had made \u201csignificant concessions,\u201d like generously agreeing not to install \u201ca puppet regime in Kyiv\u201d and (maybe) promising not to invade again in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vice President JD Vance fumbled some very textbook facts of world history while talking foreign policy on Sunday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9851,50,257,273,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-172789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-j-d-vance","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-ukraine","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}