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J. D. Vance’s latest argument against Ukraine aid does not make sense.

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Sen. J. D. Vance (R., Ohio), attends a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 7, 2023.

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Yesterday, Noah wrote a piece about how J. D. Vance thinks you will believe anything with his rhetoric about aid to Ukraine. Noah focused on Vance’s comments about Ukraine aid somehow being a plot against Donald Trump. After Noah’s piece was published, Vance gave remarks in the Senate that made just as little sense.

“At the same time that world leaders play armchair general with the Ukraine conflict, their own societies are decaying,” Vance said. It does not seem to have clicked for him that some of those leaders are actual generals, or defense ministers or diplomats, whose job it is to care about such things.

Dominic Pino

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Dominic Pino

Dominic Pino is a former economics editor and Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review and the former host of the American Institute for Economic Research podcast Econception.

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