JD Vance’s cousin says vice-president and Trump are ‘useful idiots’ to Putin
JD Vance’s cousin says vice-president and Trump are ‘useful idiots’ to Putin
Nate Vance reportedly spent three years trying to help Ukraine repel Russian troops and has been alarmed by his cousin’s remarks
“Donald Trump and my cousin clearly believe they can placate Vladimir Putin,” Nate Vance said to Le Figaro, as translated by Google. Invoking a moniker historically often applied to people who are taken advantage of by ruthless political leaders, Nate Vance continued: “They are wrong. The Russians are not about to forget our support for Ukraine. We are Vladimir Putin’s useful idiots.”
“When he criticized aid to Ukraine, I told myself that it was because he had to please a certain electorate, that it was a game of politics,” Nate Vance said.
Nate Vance specifically took aim at JD Vance’s remarks to Zelenskyy that Vance had “watched and seen … stories” justifying his distrust of Ukraine and its president.
“I thought I was going to choke,” Nate Vance reportedly added. “His own cousin was on the frontlines. I could have told him the truth, without personal interest. He never tried to find out more.”
I don’t think Vance is a useful idiot. That implies that he doesn’t understand the consequences of what he’s doing. He’s nominally second in command of a party that’s working to ultimately put his wife and kids in camps. I think he understands what he’s doing. He’s just gambling on it being successful enough and retaining enough power that he won’t personally see those consequences.
OK but is he someone other than just some guy from Ohio with a cousin