Vice President JD Vance fumbled some very textbook facts of world history while talking foreign policy on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.”
During the interview, the Yale Law School alum defended President Donald Trump’s decision to entertain Russia’s terms for a peace deal with Ukraine by claiming all wars end in compromise.
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, “If 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.”
Vance’s examples were flat wrong.
World War II ended with the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, two years after Italy’s fascist regime folded.
