JD Vance Declares ‘Era of Uncontested U.S. Dominance is OVER’ In Pro-Isolationist Speech at the Naval Academy
Vice President JD Vance gave the commencement address at the Naval Academy’s graduation ceremony in Annapolis on Friday and declared a “generational shift” in foreign policy away from the U.S. “meddling” in other countries.
Vance praised President Donald Trump’s recent trip to the Middle East and said it “signified the end of a decades-long approach to foreign policy that I think was a break from the precedent set by our founding fathers.”
“We had a long experiment in our foreign policy that traded national defense and the maintenance of our alliances for nation-building and meddling in foreign countries’ affairs,” he continued, adding:
Even when those foreign countries had very little to do with poor American interests. What we’re seeing from President Trump is a generational shift in policy with profound implications for the job that each and every one of you will be asked to do.
The Trump administration has reversed course. No more undefined missions. No more open-ended conflicts. Returning to a strategy grounded in realism and protecting our core national interests.
“We had a long experiment in our foreign policy that traded national defense and the maintenance of our alliances for nation-building and meddling in foreign countries’ affairs,” he added. “Even when those foreign countries had very little to do with poor American interests. What we’re seeing from President Trump is a generational shift in policy with profound implications for the job that each and every one of you will be asked to do.
“Our leaders traded hard power for soft power. We stopped making things: everything from cars to computers to the weapons of war, like the ships that guard our waters and the weapons that you will use in the future,” he continued, going to bat for Trump’s “America First” trade policy.
“Too many of us believed that economic integration would naturally lead to peace by making countries like the People’s Republic of China more like the United States,” Vance continued as he argued that policy failed and warned that China and Russia are now working to surpass U.S. power globally.
Vance declared the “era of uncontested US dominance is over” while urging the U.S. to look inward in order to dominate globally. Russia’s state-run propaganda network clip sections of Vance’s speech and quickly shared them on social media with the caption, “Era of uncontested US dominance is OVER – JD Vance. Warns US Naval Academy graduates that Russia and China are ‘determined’ to beat US ‘in every domain.’”
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