The article argues that Vice President J.D. Vance’s Thursday speech in Monroe, Michigan, portraying himself and Senate candidate Mike Rogers as advocates of peace who prioritize domestic concerns, contradicts both men’s long records of supporting expansive U.S. military interventions.

It notes that the Trump administration has pursued wars or threats of force in Ukraine, Venezuela, Somalia, Iran, and elsewhere while providing substantial aid to Israel, and that Rogers consistently backed overseas intervention during his House career and Intelligence Committee chairmanship.

The piece contends that Vance’s framing of the race against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed as a choice between “foreign causes” and home-focused leadership is a rhetorical inversion of the actual foreign-policy records involved.

J.D. Vance is approaching the halfway point of his term as vice president in an administration that has committed the United States to wars in locations from Ukraine to Venezuela to Somalia to Iran and beyond. All the while, the administration has threatened sending the military into other places across the world including Mexico, Greenland, and Cuba. In short, this presidential administration is fully committed to a warmongering agenda.

Over his 14 years as a United States House of Representatives member, Mike Rogers similarly established his reputation as a committed advocate for US........

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