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J.D. Vance Profile picture
@JDVance1
Feb 19 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
This video’s being circulated by advocates of unlimited funding in Ukraine, but it shows some historical illiteracy.

To beat the Germans, the British needed far more than weapons: they needed a mass mobilization of not one but two major powers (the US and the Soviets)
Is the suggestion that beating the Russians in 2024 requires the same thing as beating the Germans in 1941? I’d love to see them make that argument. It would be far more honest than the pretense that we can supply unlimited weaponry or that this weaponry will change the outcome.
Or maybe, just to throw a crazy idea out there, not every conflict is the Second World War.

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The obsession with funding endless war in Ukraine is, intentionally or not, an effort within the GOP establishment to stop the election of Donald Trump.

It is a plot against the president.theamericanconservative.com/how-congress-i…
The basic form this takes is simple: Republican leadership, desperate for Ukraine money, put their own members and Republican House members in a political bind.

Rather than accept responsibility, they blame, you guessed it, Donald Trump. Image
This is not a one-off thing. Every time their Ukraine-first plan hits a road bump, they will blame Trump and "MAGA Republicans."

They will create a narrative of chaos and extremism to undermine the nominee of their party.

Politically, they will make it harder for Trump to get elected. This is the first part of the plot.Image
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Jun 10, 2023
The question of whether Trump should have kept those documents is fundamentally a political question. Criticize it, attack it, vote against it. But prosecuting a president over his own government’s documents is turning a political issue into a legal one.
It’s insane to me that the people who shout from the rooftops about “OUR DEMOCRACY” have taken this position: unelected bureaucrats can throw the elected president in prison for “mishandling” documents. Does Article 2 mean anything? If so Trump did nothing wrong.
Maybe you disagree. Maybe you think he should have kept the documents in a safe. Fine. Then go vote against him. I try to understand the left’s perspective, but on this question—throwing Trump in prison over a political issue—they’ve passed the Rubicon. There is no going back.
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Apr 28, 2023
If Chris was an actual journalist, rather than a regime propagandist, he might note the incredible social and financial pressure to conform to the trans activist narrative. I'm shocked--shocked--that many parents are afraid of speaking openly on this topic.
During the campaign, I had about a dozen health care professionals approach me about the atrocious "gender affirming" care they saw in their hospitals and clinics. The stories were remarkably consistent: hasty procedures, lack of informed consent, and so on.
Every single person refused to go on the record, or talk to a reporter, or even allow me to personally keep some of the training and other materials they brought to events. All of them told me it would be professional suicide to speak openly.
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Mar 19, 2023
Twenty years ago we invaded Iraq. The war killed many innocent Iraqis and Americans. It destroyed the oldest Christian populations in the world. It cost over $1 trillion, and turned Iraq into a satellite of Iran. It was an unforced disaster, and I pray that we learn its lessons.
As an 18-year-old kid, I supported the war. I enlisted in the Marines a month after we invaded, and left for bootcamp a few months after I graduated from high school. Even though I was just a kid, I still feel guilty for supporting the war.
I think often of what led me to go wrong in 2003, and more importantly, what led so many smart people to support a world-historic disaster. Very few of its cheerleaders show any remorse or willingness to rethink what made them so wrong.
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Mar 13, 2023
Creating a banking system where all uninsured deposits become insured through government fiat also poses systemic risks.
Many people smarter than me were worried about a bank run. That's certainly a risk worth preventing. But I don't know why preventing that risk required an SVB bailout.
Yes, some SVB depositors did nothing wrong. (Full disclosure, some businesses I invested in had deposits in SVB, so this is a statement against interest.) But many banked with SVB because of cheap venture debt, or other services subsidized by SVB's risky business model.
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Jun 3, 2022
None of these would improve the gun violence problem in this country. All of them satisfy the urge to "do something" without actually doing anything useful, at great cost to the rights of people who follow the law. Let's take just one example, "red flag" laws.
So all of us agree that we don't want insane people to go and buy a gun and kill people. The question is how to actually accomplish that goal. Importantly, it's already a violation of federal law to sell a gun to a crazy person. So what do red flag laws do?
They allow the government to eliminate peoples' rights without any due process. Say your neighbor calls the police and says you're a bad guy who's about to commit a crime? Or maybe your ex complains about you after an argument? Now the cops can show up and remove your firearms.
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