John Bolton: Trump and J.D. Vance Fundamentally Do Not Understand that Endless Foreign Wars Are Good for Us Here at Home

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BOLTON: "Well, I think it's gonna be very bad for Ukraine. It’s — what Vance has said about it is wrong in many material respects. I don’t think he appreciates the American national security interests in protecting Ukraine against this unprovoked Russian aggression. There seems to be this idea that we’re doing this out of the goodness of our hearts, it’s an act of charity, we’re nice people — although we are. We’re doing it because there’s an American national security interest in peace and security in Europe, huge trading partners of ours and allies in other areas around the world. You know, it’s interesting, one of the things Vance relies on is he says, 'We just need the Europeans to do more in Europe pause we have to worry more about Chinese threats in the Pacific.' And it is the case that China is the existential threat of the century, but it’s forming an axis with China. These conflicts are connected. And maybe Vice President-designate Vance ought to listen to his boss’ interview on Bloomberg News last night, where Trump said, you know, Taiwan’s 9,000 miles away from us, it's a 100 miles away from China, it's really not worth the effort, basically is what he said, which is consistent of what Trump has said about Taiwan on other occasions. I think there’s a real disconnect here, but the bottom line is that these are candidates who do not fundamentally understand that a strong American presence in the world is good for us here at home."