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How the ghost of Iraq haunts peace in Ukraine

5 March 2025

5:14 AM

5 March 2025

5:14 AM

It’s great that JD Vance is all for free speech, though he does tend to shoot off his mouth in an off-putting way. He is, as Disraeli said of Gladstone, ‘a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.’

In an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity last night, the Vice President said: ‘If you want real security guarantees, if you want to actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again, the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine.

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