JD's in the Room
He called in from the Situation Room while Trump's war council partied at Mar-a-Lago. Now the skeptic owns the war.
He began his international career by trying to annex a friendly neighbor. Now J.D. Vance is being dispatched to make peace with an enemy. You couldn’t write a character arc this absurd, though the Vice President has proven over a lifetime of reinvention that he certainly would try.
Vance landed in Islamabad to negotiate a permanent end to the war with Iran, the most high-stakes diplomatic mission an American vice president has undertaken since the 1979 Islamic revolution. A fragile two-week ceasefire is technically in place, announced by Trump on Tuesday. Which means the talks happening right now are not about stopping the guns. They’re about whether the guns stay stopped. The war that roiled the Middle East, sent energy prices into the stratosphere, and choked the Strait of Hormuz was, reportedly, a war Vance never wanted. He called in from the White House situation room while Trump’s war council partied at Mar-a-Lago. He was the skeptic in the room who somehow ended up holding the ba…
