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Senator J.D. Vance Makes Huge Move to Support Trump for the 2024 Republican Nomination As World is on the Brink
DC Enquirer ^ | February 1, 2023 | Sterling Mosley

Posted on 02/02/2023 1:28:42 PM PST by SoConPubbie

On Tuesday, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) published a piece in the Wall Street Journal explaining his reasoning for supporting former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination. The article, titled “Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars,” emphasized the 45th president’s foreign policy chops.

Vance, who rose to prominence with his hit book “Hillbilly Elegy” in 2016, won the endorsement of President Trump during his run for Senate last year. Vance is seemingly returning the favor as the Republican contest for the presidency begins to take shape, as reported by Breitbart.

“A few days before America’s 2022 midterm elections, Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelensky accused Russia of firing a rocket into Poland,” Vance began in reference to a missile attack that occurred in eastern Poland last year. “It was a claim with extraordinary implications. Poland, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, benefits from the alliance’s mutual defense pact—an attack against one is an attack against all. The U.S. would plausibly have an obligation to respond militarily to a Russian attack inside Poland. In making the accusation, Mr. Zelensky was pushing on the dominoes that could start the world’s first war between nuclear powers.”

“Bipartisan foreign policy consensus has led the country astray many times. Leadership in both parties supported the invasion of Iraq, the decades long nation-building project in Afghanistan, regime change in Libya and guerrilla war in Syria,” he explained. “All of these policies cost a lot of money and killed many. None of those conflicts has served the nation’s long-term interest. Very few were ever challenged by a leader of national significance.”
The Ohio senator then went on to explain that most people see Trump’s accomplishments as domestic ones, but in reality some of his most impactful successes, and his most lasting legacy, were accomplished in foreign policy.

“My entire adult lifetime has been shaped by presidents who threw America into unwise wars and failed to win them,” Vance said. “I had just started high school when George W. Bush was elected president, and his presidency is the first I remember with any detail. Mr. Bush allowed a just war in Afghanistan to turn into a nation-building quagmire and then started an unjust war in Iraq. His successor, Barack Obama, doubled down on nation building in Afghanistan and launched a new war of his own in Libya, with the enthusiastic support of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.”

“In Mr. Trump’s four years in office, he started no wars despite enormous pressure from his own party and even members of his own administration,” the newly-elected senator stated. “Not starting wars is perhaps a low bar, but that’s a reflection of the hawkishness of Mr. Trump’s predecessors and the foreign-policy establishment they slavishly followed.”

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“But Mr. Trump did more than simply keep the peace. He brokered the Abraham Accords, a historic agreement between Israel and Sunni Arab states providing the best hope of a long-term counterbalance to Iran,” he emphasized. “He began the long, slow process of decoupling the U.S. from its economic reliance on China. He opened diplomatic talks with North Korea after a half century of stagnation. And he pushed hard—to much derision—for Europe to take more responsibility for its own defense, precisely so that the U.S. wouldn’t be drawn so deeply and dangerously into a conflict like the one in Ukraine.”

“A common critique of Mr. Trump, even from his ideological allies, is that he lacks ‘statesmanship.’” the 38-year-old said. “Even people who like his policies wish he exercised more verbal restraint. Fair enough. But there’s an implicit critique of America’s leaders hidden below the surface of that accusation. Why is it that the people the U.S. trains for leadership are so careful with their words yet so reckless with their actions? Why does America devote billions of dollars to recruiting and training its best young minds for leadership, only to have those minds orchestrate one foreign-policy disaster after another?”

“The answer is that, from grand-strategy seminars to the State Department, our entire notion of statesmanship is broken,” he wrote. “For many, statesmanship means having a polite social-media presence and throwing out slogans about “freedom” and “democracy” while starting world-historic catastrophes in the Middle East. I prefer a different kind of statesmanship: one that stands athwart the crowd, reminding leaders in both parties that the U.S. national interest must be pursued ruthlessly but also carefully, with strong words but great restraint.”

“Donald Trump’s presidency marked the first real disruption to a failed consensus and the terrible consequences it wrought,” Senator Vance emphasized. “That fact, more than any single accomplishment, is the enduring legacy of Mr. Trump’s first term. But there is much more to do, and I’m supporting him for president in 2024 because he’s the only person certain to do it.”

With Donald Trump winning a key endorsement from a prominent Ohio senator, his path to the nomination in 2024 just got easier. President Trump’s foreign policy was one of the highlights of his presidency and at a time when the world is at the brink of war with Russia invading Ukraine and China on the doorsteps of Taiwan, we need a president that is able to lead and secure peace abroad.

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1 posted on 02/02/2023 1:28:42 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

Proud to endorse @realDonaldTrump for President in 2024.

While others want to foolishly march us into WW3 over Russia and Ukraine, Trump is the only candidate running with the courage to stand up to the corrupt bipartisan foreign policy establishment. https://t.co/RKHzg4B2AP— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) February 2, 2023


2 posted on 02/02/2023 1:30:38 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

👍😁


3 posted on 02/02/2023 1:31:16 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

I don’t trust this amateur RINO at all.


4 posted on 02/02/2023 1:32:58 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: PubliusMM

You shouldn’t. He said what he really thinks of Trump before it became politically disadvantageous to do so. Like so many Republican politicians, he only pretends to support Trump because the base does.


5 posted on 02/02/2023 1:35:52 PM PST by GulliverSwift
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To: PubliusMM; Ann Archy

Heard you before, BROKEN record.

To: PubliusMM
He is NOT a RINO!

24 posted on 02/02/2023 3:36:49 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)

To: PubliusMM
I guess you would RATHER have DEMOCRAT Tim Ryan!!! you people are unbelievable....GIVE THE GUY A CHANCE!

25 posted on 02/02/2023 3:38:11 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)


6 posted on 02/02/2023 1:36:20 PM PST by conservative98
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To: PubliusMM

You mean, a different amateur RINO you would trust? Don’t trust. Just verify. He said something useful, and we can verify if he sticks with it. That’s the most you can expect from any politician. “Trust”? Pfft!


7 posted on 02/02/2023 1:36:40 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: PubliusMM

Good for Vance. Globalists hate him. He has all the right enemies.


8 posted on 02/02/2023 1:39:17 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
I agree. That's more than a simple "what a guy" endorsement.
9 posted on 02/02/2023 1:45:39 PM PST by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: SoConPubbie

I’m sure that Trump called him up, reminded him that he would not be in the Senate if Trump had not supported him, and demanded that Vance offer a heartfelt endorsement of Trump. “You owe me.”


10 posted on 02/02/2023 1:58:23 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: SoConPubbie

Nice article! My only fear about it is that two years from now any survivors will be living in a new Stone Age cursing our actions.


11 posted on 02/02/2023 1:59:33 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
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If Michel Obama announces his run for president (real president now is Barry using his minions.) It will be difficult race with the cheating.

If Barry wins again this will make it his 4th term (unofficially.) While disrupting Trumps term.
12 posted on 02/02/2023 2:05:16 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: SoConPubbie

who?
oh, ok.


13 posted on 02/02/2023 2:49:13 PM PST by epluribus_2
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To: central_va
I don't know anything about Vance but it's an interesting article, food for thought.

Truman 1945 - 1953 Korea, Vietnam
Eisenhower 1953 - 1961 Vietnam, Lebanon in 1958
Kennedy 1961 -1963 Vietnam, Bay of Pigs
Johnson 1963 - 1969 Vietnam
Nixon 1969 - 1974 Vietnam
Ford 1974 -1977
Carter 1977 - 1981
Reagan 1981 - 1989 Grenada, 1983 in Lebanon, Libya
Bush 1 1989 - 1993 Persian Gulf War, Panama, Somalia
Clinton 1993 - 2001 Somalia, Bosnian War, Sudan=asprin factory
Bush 2 2001 - 2009 War on Terror, Iraq War
Obama 2009 -2017 Libyan Civil War, Syria
Trump 2017 - 2021
Biden 2021 -

According to something I read, all the presidents from Eisenhower through Nixon accelerated and intensified the Vietman war which is why I listed them all.

14 posted on 02/02/2023 3:14:00 PM PST by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (It's a failed virus but a hugely successful propaganda campaign.)
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To: SoConPubbie
Talk is cheap to a Silicon Valley carpetbagger who had the Ohio seat bought for him by Peter Thiel. McConnell has already compromised him with a committee seat previously held by a known conservative. Let's see how he VOTES.
15 posted on 02/02/2023 4:15:37 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (eleutheromaniac)
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To: SoConPubbie

Read later.


16 posted on 02/03/2023 5:08:34 AM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: conservative98

Yes. He’s a frggin’ RINO...


17 posted on 02/25/2023 7:20:59 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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