Raw Story: JD Vance's quick reversal on his own comments driven by 'fear it might go nuclear': report

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Raw Story - JD Vance's quick reversal on his own comments driven by 'fear it might go nuclear': report

David McAfee
May 10, 2025 9:08PM ET

From "fundamentally none of our business" to making his own efforts to ensure peace, Vice President JD Vance has reportedly been all over the place when it comes to one foreign conflict.

David E. Sanger, Julian E. Barnes and the so-called Trump whisperer Maggie Haberman of the New York Times reported on the developments on Saturday in an article entitled, "Reluctant at First, Trump Officials Intervened in South Asia as Nuclear Fears Grew."

In the article, the reporters argue, "After Vice President JD Vance suggested that the conflict between India and Pakistan was not America’s problem, the Trump administration grew concerned that it could spiral out of control."

The report continues:

"As a conflict between India and Pakistan escalated, Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on Thursday that it was 'fundamentally none of our business.' The United States could counsel both sides to back away, he suggested, but this was not America’s fight," the report states. "Yet within 24 hours, Mr. Vance and Marco Rubio, in his first week in the dual role of national security adviser and secretary of state, found themselves plunged into the details. The reason was the same one that has driven every president since Bill Clinton to deal with another major conflict between the two longtime enemies in 1999: fear that it might quickly go nuclear."

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[Lovie777]

1. Garbage spilling out his foul mouth on a daily basis.............

and he's next in line when shithole goes down hopefully serving prison time.

[johnnyfins]

2. I stopped at "MAGA Haberman"

[Ocelot II]

3. Vance is an unqualified loudmouth like everybody else in that clown show.

Anybody with two functioning brain cells to rub together would know that a conflict between two nuclear-armed countries needs attention. I just don't know whether either Couch Boy or Little Marco could be useful at all.

[Swede]

4. The incompetent bunch don't have a clue how the world works.

From top to bottom, they are a bunch of mediocre Trump fluffers.

[malaise]

5. Are you kidding me? 😀

They don’t even know how the US government works.

[Biophilic]

6. I can only surmise that these people have had their heads in the sand since birth.

How can they be this ignorant? That is a serious question. I know more about how the world and governments work. How is that possible?

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. I had the feeling that was happening, as soon as Trump blurted there was a ceasefire

and he and Rubio tried to take credit. I thought "hadn't they said 'not our problem' only a day or two ago?" But I only looked up what Rubio, as Secretary of State, had said, and he hadn't been publicly washing his hands of the situation.

The problem here is that Trump is worse than useless and would ruin any delicate negotiation (though at least he's lazy, so might stay out of anything), Vance is trying to both look good to racist MAGA types and get traditional Republicans to take him seriously (with MAGA ideological advisers), and Rubio is doing the same, but with some proper State department advisers thrown in too. So the "administration stance" could be almost anything at any given moment.

[republianmushroom]

8. Another republican dealer maker.