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On the third day of the new war with Iran, and after years of building a political reputation grounded in opposition to foreign intervention, Vice President JD Vance broke his silence: He supports the strikes and believes the latest adventure abroad is not only prudent but consistent with his and President Trump’s promises not to risk American lives for regime change.

The difference between this conflict and the Global War on Terror, Vance told Jesse Waters of Fox News, was that Trump “is not going to let his country go to war unless there is a clearly defined objective.” The stated aim in this case is to ensure Iran can never develop a nuclear weapon.

“It is pretty clear,” said the former Marine who deployed to Iraq. “It is pretty simple,” concluded the most prominent anti-interventionist in this administration.

But it is also a political liability for the MAGA heir apparent. The vice president rose to that role, in large part, as the vanguard of a strict kind of America First thinking. He endorsed Trump for a second term in a Wall Street Journal op-ed “because I know he won’t recklessly send Americans to fight overseas.” The headline for that 2023 guest essay read: “Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars.”

The apparent evolution left anti-interventionist allies disappointed. Sohrab Amari, a post-liberal conservative and close friend of the vice president, concluded that Vance “lost the foreign policy war,” bemoaning how a critic of neoconservatism rose to the highest levels of government “only to help implement the foreign-policy preferences of, say, John Bolton or Elliott Abrams.” Conflicting stories further complicated the controversy in New Right circles, with the New York Times simultaneously reporting that Vance had leaned against striking Iran but also pressed for a “go big and go fast” approach.

A spokesman for the vice president declined to comment. But President Trump dismissed the idea that Vance required any convincing, telling RealClearPolitics during a brief Monday interview that his No 2 “did not take persuading.”........

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