JD Vance's quick reversal on his own comments driven by 'fear it might go nuclear': report
From "fundamentally none of our business" to making his own efforts to ensure peace, Vice President JD Vance has reportedly been all over the place when it comes to one foreign conflict.
David E. Sanger, Julian E. Barnes and the so-called Trump whisperer Maggie Haberman of the New York Times reported on the developments on Saturday in an article entitled, "Reluctant at First, Trump Officials Intervened in South Asia as Nuclear Fears Grew."
In the article, the reporters argue, "After Vice President JD Vance suggested that the conflict between India and Pakistan was not America’s problem, the Trump administration grew concerned that it could spiral out of control."
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The report continues:
"As a conflict between India and Pakistan escalated, Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on Thursday that it was 'fundamentally none of our business.' The United States could counsel both sides to back away, he suggested, but this was not America’s fight," the report states. "Yet within 24 hours, Mr. Vance and Marco Rubio, in his first week in the dual role of national security adviser and secretary of state, found themselves plunged into the details. The reason was the same one that has driven every president since Bill Clinton to deal with another major conflict between the two longtime enemies in 1999: fear that it might quickly go nuclear."
Going even further, the Times reports that, "What drove Mr. Vance and Mr. Rubio into action was evidence that the Pakistani and Indian Air Forces had begun to engage in serious dogfights, and that Pakistan had sent 300 to 400 drones into Indian territory to probe its air defenses."
"But the most significant causes for concern came late Friday, when explosions hit the Noor Khan air base in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, the garrison city adjacent to Islamabad," according to the report.
After outlining the dangers of the two counties going to nuclear war, the report goes on to say, "It is unclear whether there was American intelligence pointing to a rapid, and perhaps nuclear, escalation of the conflict."