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Vance Is Wrong About Europe March 31, 2025

There has been nonstop discussion about the Trump administration's Signal chat leaks, in which Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other national security advisers discussed plans for air strikes in a chat inadvertently con...

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JD Vance’s Trip to Greenland Is a Strong, Smart Move March 28, 2025

Vice President J.D. Vance and second lady Usha Vance are slated to make a historic trip to Greenland’s northwest coast and visit Pituffik Space Base, where they’ll meet our nation’s guardians and airmen on base, tour the facility, and discuss the gr...

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Romania’s Electoral Coup Is a Blow to Europe March 13, 2025

This past weekend, Romania’s electoral commission disqualified the frontrunner nationalist candidate, Calin Georgescu, from participating in May’s upcoming presidential contest, the latest development in an electoral saga started with the controversi...

Shapiro Must Act Now to Defund Kremlin March 13, 2025

Following the recent contentious Oval Office meeting between President Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy, Gov. Josh Shapiro quickly jumped into the fray, issuing a statement blaming the President and Vice P...

Europe Wants to be the World’s Speech Police March 03, 2025

The greatest threat to Europe isn’t China, Russia, or some other external actor; it’s “the retreat of Europe from… fundamental values” like the freedom of speech.That was Vice President Vance’s warning to European leaders at the 2025 Munich Security ...

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Europe’s Free Ride Comes to an End March 01, 2025

Having been shocked by Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s negotiations with Russia, the great and the good in Europe are descending on Washington to understand what the Trump admi...

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President Trump Is Dealing With Reality In Ukraine February 21, 2025

For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn't have started if President Trump was in office; second, that neither Europe, nor the Biden administration, nor the Ukrainians had any pathway to victory. Th...

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If Anything, J.D. Vance Was Polite to Europe February 21, 2025

It’s hypocritical to rally the free world around defending democracy if Western democracies themselves abandon democratic values....

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The Vance Advance & the Miserable EU Elites February 19, 2025

If there is one thing Europe’s progressive elites hate more than a populist uprising, it’s an American reminding them how low they have fallen. Enter JD Vance, the US Vice President, who took the stage at the Munich Security Conference and did precis...

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Ukraine War: Europe, We Can Do This February 18, 2025

Is Donald Trump proposing a capitulation to Russia or isn’t he? The messages concerning the war in Ukraine have been as mixed and confusing as ever, whether the source is President Trump himself in Washington or his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ...

Vance's Historic Defense of Free Speech in Europe February 18, 2025

In “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” J.D. Vance wrote, “I don’t believe in epiphanies. I don’t believe in transformative moments, as transformation is harder than a moment.” ...

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What a Trump-Vance Administration Would Mean for Europe July 20, 2024

Should Donald Trump win November’s US election, his choice of J.D. Vance as a running mate suggests huge shocks to US policy on China, trade, and security are around the corner. Europeans must respond decisively...

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Why Vance as VP Is About U.S. Foreign Policy July 20, 2024

The Ohio senator's vision on Ukraine can be the blueprint for a revised GOP orthodoxy ...

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A Trump-Vance Foreign Policy July 19, 2024

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J.D. Vance: Foreign Policy Realist July 18, 2024

“In a private session Tuesday with the International Republican Institute, an internationalist group founded in the Reagan era, [Mitch] McConnell walked attendees through history, reminding them that the party has long had brushes with isolationism,”...

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Why JD Vance Will Be Good for Europe July 16, 2024

European leaders were already panicking at the prospect of a Donald Trump victory, which looked likely even before Saturday’s assassination attempt galvanised support for the ex-president. ...

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