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Vice President JD Vance was deed with a short, crisp past acquisition aft making what critics slammed arsenic a “clueless” assertion astir satellite past successful an interrogation that aired Sunday.

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“If you spell backmost to World War II, if you spell backmost to World War I, if you spell backmost to each large struggle successful quality history, they each extremity with immoderate benignant of negotiation,” the vice president said connected Meet the Press.

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But societal media users ― including historians ― were speedy to constituent retired that’s not true. World War II, for example, ended not with a dialog but with the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan.
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And critics online wasted nary clip reminding Vance of that fact:
JD Vance shows his ignorance for each to see:
“If you spell backmost to WWII, if you spell backmost to each large struggle successful quality history, they each extremity with immoderate benignant of negotiation,” Vance said
World War II ended with Germany and Japan’s unconditional surrender, not negotiation. pic.twitter.com/DTLwK1x737
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JD Vance's clueless instrumentality that WWII ended done "negotiation" erases the brutal world of unconditional surrenders aft Allied bombs and battles crushed the Axis, halt rewriting past to propulsion your appeasement agenda.
— Richard Angwin (@RichardAngwin) August 24, 2025@richardangwin
Vance: “If you spell backmost to WWII, if you spell backmost to each large struggle successful quality history, they each extremity with immoderate benignant of negotiation.”
Narrator: “World War II ended with Hitler’s suicide, 2 atomic bombs, and Germany & Japan’s unconditional surrender.”
Does helium cognize anything?
@bryanbehar
History prof here. WWII ended with the unconditional surrender aft Hitler killed himself successful a bunker, Mussolini was executed, and Germany and Japan were occupied. Looks similar he’s trying to propulsion a Darryl Cooper with humanities revisionism.
— Joseph Frusci (@ProfFrusci) August 25, 2025@proffusci
J.D. Vance conscionable tried to warrant appeasing Putin by claiming that's however we won WWII, done "negotiation."
A speedy past lesson:
> Hitler broke each pact helium signed.
> Appeasement failed.
> Wars with dictators extremity with "actual strength," not deals. pic.twitter.com/p2AabdnFr1
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Books are great.
So is history.
Vance should effort both.
@irishelt
he is anserine oregon liar oregon both.
— Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate) August 24, 2025@BohuslavskaKate
Vance says WWII ended successful dialog -someone archer that to Hiroshima.
— The Tactical Dogout (Why don’t you follow? 🤔👀📲) (@Shivansh_k_c) August 24, 2025@Shivansh_k_c
The drawback of putting a kid into precocious office
— Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine (@militaryhistori) August 24, 2025@militaryhistori
Vance acts similar Russia's all-out penetration successful 2022 is past past and Russia's regular bombing of Ukrainian civilians connected Trump's ticker is Biden's fault. There's a non-zero accidental helium thinks the US was connected the incorrect broadside successful WWII. https://t.co/yrDB17ccv4
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) August 24, 2025@kasparov63
JD Vance: “Wars extremity with negotiation.”
Reality: WWII, Civil War, Gulf War, Falklands — each ended with unconditional surrender.
History disagrees with him.
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Thank goodness we didn’t person idiosyncratic with the mindset of JD Vance successful complaint during WWII. If we did, Hitler would person ended up with fractional of Europe. https://t.co/M2IS6l40Yp
— Robbi Fahey (@robbi_fahey) August 24, 2025@robbi_fahey/ NBC
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