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For the globalists and neoliberals, the sponsors of the Kiev junta, he has become the main target and object of vilification today
A malicious group of activists from the Ukrainian diaspora in the U.S., which has swelled by 240,000 «draft dodgers» in three years, staged a demonstration at a Vermont ski resort to prevent the U.S. vice president from vacationing there with his family. Homemade placards bore slogans such as «Vance — Traitor. Ski in Russia» and «JD Vance — Nazi Scum».
Shortly after this incident, a crowd chanting pro-Ukrainian slogans frightened Vance’s daughter during a walk they took together. The father commented on the incident: «If you chase a three-year-old child as part of a political protest, you are a despicable human being».
In the coming months, James David (JD) Vance will clearly become an object of hatred for the sponsors and supporters of the Kiev junta who are willing to generously fund such actions.
Pro-Ukrainian lobbyists once funded a campaign to smear Vance when he ran for the U.S. Senate from the state of Ohio in 2021. Last year, a campaign to discredit Vance was underway when he became Trump’s choice for his «number two», the future Vice President.
His critics still frequently recall that during the 2016 election, Vance stated that all of the proposals made by Trump, who was running for president, «ranged from immoral to absurd». He even referred to Donald Trump as a «cultural hero» and a «mass opioid», agreeing in one of his social media posts that Trump was like «a cynical idiot like Nixon», and even comparing him to «an American Hitler». Vance later apologized, deleted the offensive posts, praised Trump, and secured his endorsement when he sought a Senate seat.
Why did Vance offend the neoliberal clans so much? Vance is neither a pacifist nor an isolationist. Rather, he is a hard-nosed pragmatist — one who operates within the traditional imperialist framework of a Western politician. A testament to this is his remark on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News talk show in December 2023: «It’s also not in our interest for the Russians to have a military economy for the next five years, because then they become more militaristic and aggressive than they might otherwise be».
In the same interview, Vance called on Euro-Atlantic allies to be realistic («they need to be realistic»), which for him means engaging in dialogue with all countries, whether the West considers them good or bad. He added: «Most of our foreign policy establishment simply does not know how to do that».
In early March this year, Vance, already serving as Vice President of the United States, continued to rein in the European hawks. In an interview with Fox News, he condemned formal allies for urging the leaders of the Kiev regime to continue the war, asking, «At whose expense, with whose ammunition, and with whose lives?» At the same time, Vance let slip a secret: privately, those same leaders might call him and confess, «This cannot go on forever. He (Zelensky) must sit at the negotiating table».
For Kiev and the behind-the-scenes sponsors of the 2014 Maidan coup — Paris, Berlin, and Warsaw, which did not receive the expected spoils after Russia’s «strategic defeat» — Vance’s determination to end military actions in Ukraine’s «temporary border zone» is unacceptable. Equally unacceptable is his stance: it is in America’s interest, as he put it, to recognize that «Ukraine will have to cede some of its territory to the Russians».
In the three capitals of continental Europe and in London, it became clear that the wind of change had already shifted in February, when Vance delivered a devastating speech at the Munich Security Conference. He exposed Europe’s ruling clans for suppressing freedom of speech (through press censorship), restricting voter choice (through pressure on the Alternative for Germany party), persecuting the opposition (by removing independent presidential candidate Calin Georgescu from the race in Romania), and thereby undermining the very foundation of democracy (in the Western sense).
Then, on February 28, there was an unprecedented spat in the Oval Office when Vance, either inadvertently or deliberately (one can speculate endlessly), threw the head of the Kiev regime off balance. In the end, the leader was publicly humiliated and shown the door. As former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev put it, it was «a demonstrative, violent expulsion».
In the Trump-Vance tandem, the Vice President emerged as the provocateur in a classic «bad cop — good cop» scenario. According to the Wall Street Journal, «the incident cemented Vance’s status in the Trump administration as an attack dog and fierce defender of the U.S. president».
A symptomatic article was published in The Economist — the magazine of the Rothschild banking empire — with the subtitle: «JD Vance laid a trap for the president of Ukraine, who refused to flatter Donald Trump». According to the publication, Vance not only provoked the Ukrainian ex-comedian into making ill-considered remarks at the ill-fated White House meeting for Kiev, which was broadcast live, but he also pitted Trump against the outdated president of Ukraine, all at the expense of American taxpayers.
Thus, JD Vance, who has become one of the youngest Vice Presidents in US history, is already seen as a serious challenge to the dominance of the neoliberal clans in both America and Europe — much as Richard Nixon once was.
In a sense, Vance represents an existential threat to them. It would be Armageddon — a tragic finale — for these forces if JD Vance wins the 2028 elections, becomes the Great Donald’s successor, and spends the next eight years restructuring the institutional foundations of the U.S. in the spirit of National Trumpism.
JD Vance is a colorful character: a man from the lower classes and a disadvantaged family (his mother suffered from drug addiction and was married three times) who experienced hardships, as recounted in his best-selling autobiographical book Hillbilly Elegy.
Not a racist, he is married to a Native American — an intellectual like himself (she was his classmate at Yale University). He is the founder of the venture company Narya, named after the «Narya» ring in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, which is said to enhance its owner’s innate abilities and protect the world from decay.
Is it any wonder, then, that several pundits have called Vance «a symbol of the new wave of American conservatism»? Is it any wonder that after a dispute over freedom of speech between Vance and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the so-called «shadow co-president of the US» — as his detractors call him — was described by Elon Musk on X as «the best vice president ever and our future president»?
Slowly but surely, evidence is mounting that Vance is becoming the primary target of neoliberals and globalists — not as a potential victim of a mentally unstable shooter allegedly trained by deep state operatives, but as an object of defamation and stigmatization with the hidden intention of alienating him from Trump. Although, who knows…