Vance’s role here is electric. Calling Zelensky “disrespectful” wasn’t petulance -- it was a generational torch-passing, a signal that the MAGA vanguard rejects the old GOP’s interventionist dogma. Vance, a Rust Belt warrior, knows the cost of foreign overreach: hollowed-out towns, veterans adrift, families stretched thin. His clash with Zelensky flipped the script. Experience isn’t the issue; principle is. America First doesn’t mean isolation -- it means discernment. Vance and Trump aren’t anti-Ukraine; they’re pro-America, a distinction lost on the warhawk relics clutching their think-tank sinecures. Yet balance demands we weigh Zelensky’s bind. He’s not wrong that Russia’s word is...