When Donald Trump’s presidency was supported in 2024, then. JD VANCE put his support on a The simple ideaTrump did not start any wars during his first term.
Now his vice president works, and Vans is invited to take a more complex defense case Trump’s decision on Saturday To drop bombs on nuclear enrichment sites in Iran.
Vans was next to the Trump team in the White House room during the strikes, and in the televised address to announce them. The next morning, he appeared in two news programs on Sunday to answer the immediate discretion of the United States in a conflict between Israel and Iran.
The United States, Vans emphasized NBC news. ”Meet“He was not in war with Iran, but with the Iranian nuclear weapons program. Diplomacy, Vans added,” The Iranians did not give the Iranian opportunity. “this weekVerse argued that Trump’s claim that Iran’s nuclear capabilities “were completely blurred” were not different from Tamer’s description In the New York Times The program was “severely damaged”.
Vans on Sunday – inflated with Foreign Minister Marco Rubio By the White House’s fast response team in A. Clips Posted on social media – he was not out of some of his sincere statements on Iran. But his television appearance was also aimed at reassuring others who, like Vans, were widely skeptical of foreign interference or opposed it.
“I am sure to sympathize with Americans who have exhausted after 25 years of foreign tangle in the Middle East,” Vans said in “Meet The Press”. “I understand anxiety, but the difference is that at that time, we have GPS, and now we have a president who already knows how to achieve US national security goals.”
Vans added that the clash with Iran, “there will be no long, and we have entered, we have done the task of re -re -program. We will now dismantle this nuclear program permanently over the coming years, and this is what the president has determined.
A person close to the Trump team, who was granted not to disclose his identity to share internal thinking, said.
This person added: “The president has complete confidence in his ability to communicate the administration’s message effectively, especially in hostile lands, in a way that can collect his alliance, instead of dividing it.”
The divided coalition was a source of concern within the Trump world since Israel fired air strikes against Iran last week, which led to revenge on Iran – and Fears The United States will participate directly in the conflict.
a lot Maga Trump’s influential personalitiesFrom Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon to the right -wing right -wing activist Charlie Kirk, has strong or anti -intervention destinations and common platforms to share it.
Fans himself was a tip of the spear for such situations, which he made clear in January 2023 guest column Books to support Trump in the Wall Street magazine. Several people in Trump’s orbit referred to this support, which came at a low moment in the Trump 2024 campaign, as a basic bondage in a relationship that flourished in the presidency of a deputy.
Vans wrote in the column, which appeared on the Internet under the title “The best foreign policy of Trump?”
“The failure to start wars may be a low tape, but this is a reflection of the ancestors of the ancestors of Mr. Trump and the Foreign Policy Foundation that they brilliantly followed.”
That global view, which Vans and others held, at that time, was particularly strong given the right -wing opposition to the American interference in Russia’s war against Ukraine. But those approaching Vans notice that over time he applied more accurate thinking about Iran.
Speaking last year on a Offer hosting Morgan OrtridosAnd a factor in foreign policy that served Trump as deputy a private presidential envoy to the Middle East, Verse called for a “aggressive” approach to ensure that a nuclear weapon was not developed or spread.
“So, God forbid, they will reach there, so I think you should be ready to take some extremist steps – if it is effective – to ensure that there is no wider nuclear capacity, and that they cannot launch nuclear missiles throughout the Middle East or even all over the world.” “I think we should be aggressive with this, and I have come in this position of some restraint in foreign policy. I think the war often leads to unintended consequences, but preventing Iran from obtaining a bomb – a truly task.”
in Fox News interview During the Republican National Congress for the past year, Vansel Done held in the first term of Trump The attack that killed Iranian military leader Qassem Solimani An example of smart driving.
“Many people realize that we need to do something with Iran, but this is not the weak little bombing,” Vans told host Sean Hanity. “If you are going to hole the Iranians, you are hitting them very much. This is what he did when Soleimani took out.”
Recently, the Munich leaders conference last month in Washington, Vans, described the Iranian nuclear program as a turning point.
“We really think that if Domino fell Iran, you will see nuclear spread throughout the Middle East,” Vans said. “This is very bad for us. It’s very bad for our friends. This is something we don’t think can happen.”
Last week, with the increasing anticipation of American intervention, Vans used his personal account to version A. 374 preventive defense words From all that Trump may decide to do with Iran.
“He gained some confidence in this issue. After he saw this closely and personally, I can assure you that he is only interested in using the American army to achieve the goals of the American people. Whatever he does, this is its axis.”
