How JD Vance sees the world

The White House debate stressed the main role of JD Vans in tearing the US alliance with Ukraine, shaking European leaders, and strongly expressing Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The vice president started punching on the global stage. So what did he draw his worldview?

Vance’s first major foreign speech surprised many people at the Munich Security Conference in mid -February.

Rather than focusing on the war in Ukraine, the US vice president briefly mentioned the bloody European conflicts since World War II.

Instead, he used his debut on the international stage to collect Close us allies on immigration and freedom of immigration and media, suggesting that European facilities are anti -democratic. He accused them ignored people’s will and questioned what shared value they were sharing to truly defend with the United States.

“If you are afraid of your voters, there is nothing you can do for you, and there is something you can do for Americans.”

It was a bold and unexpected way to introduce yourself to the world by angry with European allies. A few days later, however, he returned to the news and returned from the center of blisters with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

For those who have studied Vance’s Rise, these two episodes are not surprising.

The vice president has represented the intellectual wings of the conservative movement, which provides expressions of Trumpism, especially the US first mantra, which is applied beyond the border. In writing and interviews, Vance expressed the ideology of joining the US worker in his mind, global elite and a larger world.

Last year, in a campaign trail with Donald Trump, Vance spent a lot of time criticizing the Democratic Party, a task of a general attack tool with colleagues.

And in the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s large and non -traditional role doubled him, but the Munich speech and the oval office confrontation filed a profile of Trump.

He also questioned his ideological journey for several years in conservative movements and what he really believed in.

James ORR, a friend of religious philosophy and Vance of the University of Cambridge and Vance, described as “British Sherpa,” is a much more pragmaticist than ideolog.

“He can clearly express what’s in the interests of the United States,” ORR said. “And the interest of the United States is not the interest of abstract utopia or proposals and ideas, but the interests of the American people.”

The Vance has repeatedly returned to this “america first” or “americans first”, and led the boundary between Washington’s economic and foreign policy authentic overseas and the struggle of the left -wing US labor class at home.

For example, at the Republican convention last summer, he mourned in a small village across the United States that “jobs were sent abroad and children were sent to war.” And he attacked President Joe Biden at the time, saying, “For half a century he became a champion of all policy initiatives to weaken and poor the United States.”

However, Vance is also a person who attempted a lot of different views even after suddenly gaining fame on the back of the Ohio family with the roots of the Appal teeth and the best -selling memoir Hill Hill Billy Elegy.

He not only was the “absolute Trumper” of the United States, which described the US president in 2016 as “stupid” and “fools,” and his book criticized the individual’s choice for many criticisms of the poor people in the poor in rural areas.

More recently, he has been criticized to the elites, a group defined in a diverse group of Democrats, traditional Republicans, liberalism, corporate leaders, globalists and academics.

In the speech, Vance regularly insists that “the United States is not just an idea … America is a country.”

He says this statement about his family’s ancestor cemetery in Kentucky, and he and his wife speaks of his wife, and their children will one day be buried in one day, claiming that family and hometown is more important than the traditional American core ideas.

From the point of view of Vance, the Trump administration’s priority is to improve life to Americans who have been in the country for many generations but have little wealth of the state.

A conservative American writer, ROD DREHER, a vice president of Vice President, said that the Bance thinking was “Nomi Republican … Nothing was not provided to prevent the so -called eternal war, and it was not provided to ordinary Americans suffering economically under the influence of globalism, mass migration and pentanil. It came from.

Dreher told the Today Program of BBC Radio 4 that “he was red fade by Donald Trump.”

“RED-PILLED” is an internet slang to wake up the hidden truth as if it was published in the Matrix movie. It is commonly used by online online people who believe that there is a special approach to reality and people with liberalism, middle -headed or facility perspective are critical thinking.

And Vance is an extremely connected vice president than his boss. He is a passionate user of X, and has often jumped directly into the debate rather than using it as a platform for notice like many politicians.

His appearance of Fringe’s right -wing podcast tried to reveal his support for the Senate, but he provided the Senators, just like a provocative trolleish that the United States was operated by “Childless Cat Ladies”.

Married to the daughter of Indian immigrants, he was rejected and rejected even if he reflected his view. But he has a friend and an alliance in the top of the silicon valley and a less well -known corner.

After graduating from Yale Law School, he took the influential silicon valley conservative Peter Thiel to the world of venture capital and later funded for the US Senate campaign.

He cited people like Curtis Yarvin, a key expert in the “ID,” which dreams of an over -capitalist society’s fantasy, which is led by a powerful monarch.

His familiarity with the fringe on the Internet has been more proven to spread false rumors about immigrants who eat pets and charges of Ukrainian corruption.

Cathy Young, a conservative van Trump Media Outlet Bulwark, said, “He has heard some kind of stew in this online world.”

At the same time, his anecdote of family cemetery and his hometown said that another political tendency, or “optimism,”.

“It’s right to bother some people,” she said. “Some of the legacy of the United States is that we are immigrant countries. [Former Republican President] Ronald Reagan has talked about one of the unique points of this country.

VANCE’s “AmericanS FIRST” accident is clearly expanded to Ukrainian war issues. When he was a senator, he was often critical of the US participation in the war and the enormous amount of money. His former senator, Josh Hawley, was recalled by Republican Republican Party in Missouri.

Hawley told the BBC, “his position was very similar to the current situation.” “We must end in a way that is as advantageous as the security of the United States, and it must end in a way that the European allies should take responsibility.”

Vance regularly condemned the BIDEN administration that Biden is more interested in Ukraine than illegal immigration. After the Senate campaign and the Russian invasion in 2022, he said: “If we try to prioritize the eastern border in Ukraine when our southern border is caught by the human tsunami of illegal immigrants.”

His views broke out in an oval office in a dramatic debate with President Jellen Ski. VANCE accused Zelensky’s lack of respect and dispatched politicians to Ukraine’s “Shenzhen Tour” and insufficient gratitude for our aid.

He told Ukrainian President Ukrainian, “I am grateful to the president who wants to save the United States and the state.”

This debate tried to bother European leaders to defend Zelen Ski and to maintain negotiations on possible peace contracts.

Vance has caused extensive anger of allies. He poured out the idea of ​​security security in the form of military in the form of an army in any country that had not been war for 30 or 40 years.

He later denied that he was talking about England or France.

However, according to his words, the vice president’s willingness to step on the toes of the allies reflects the global view of “moralism of this country is good,” “This country is bad.”

“This doesn’t mean you have to have a complete moral blind spot, but you have to be honest about the nations you are dealing with, and you have completely failed in most foreign policy facilities in this country,” he told the New York Times columnist last year.

His tone moved for two years from the US Senate before being elected by Trump. The Democratic Cory Booker remembered Vance as “very practical and thoughtful.”

Booker told the BBC, “This is why some of these things surprise me.”

Others detect the same break.

Atlantic Magazine’s writer, David Frum, said Vance’s view was greatly changed from his writing for a website for conservative politics 15 years ago.

“He was not a cultural warrior today,” Prum said.

Former George W Bush speaker, Frum, was a firm critic of Trump and called Vance’s view of Russia as “ideological admiration.”

In Munich, he talked about the freedom of the media, citing events related to the conservatives and Christians of the Western nations, but avoided mentioning the severe clamps of Russia’s expression.

But he and his defenders are seeing the situation through another lens.

“It’s not that Russia is not a threat, but that Europe and the United Kingdom are honestly having a much worse problem at home.”

The quick end of Ukraine’s conflict is not to stop billions of dollars away from Vance’s mind.

He said he had a greater problem in focusing on China’s threats, a bigger problem that the United States and their friends should focus on, that is, China’s threat.

Vance’s view of Ukraine and the willingness to openly supply the air provided a dramatic moment in the early days of Trump’s second president.

But it also provided vice -president’s ideology, his reputation in the Trump administration, and a vivid illustration of how he saw the US position in the world.

Washington’s Rachel Looker and Anthony Zurcher reports and LILY Jamali in San Francisco