Although he has repeatedly threatened the country with military strikes, the president has made clear that he prefers to resolve differences diplomatically, and in the past month, the two sides have engaged in talks aimed at hammering out a new nuclear deal that appears similar to the original one. The Trump team’s stark divides were evident in the Signal chat that inadvertently included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, in which Vance vocally opposed Trump-ordered air strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, claiming that the group’s attacks on international shipping should be Europe’s problem. Last month, when a group of Republican senators criticized Vance over his apparent reluctance to confront the Houthis, the vice president referred reporters to Donald Trump Jr., who retorted in a statement, “These seven cowardly neocons attacking JD anonymously are genuine pussies.” This bizarre deployment of the president’s son by Vance against GOP members of Congress seems somewhat less bizarre when one grasps that the two men are allied on foreign policy against the Republican establishment.
Author: Yair Rosenberg
Published at: 2025-04-23 22:42:00
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