Vice president J. Divan Vance asserted that wars ultimately end through negotiation and suggested Ukraine should permit Russia to retain territory, seized children, and devastated cities. The invocation of World War II and the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings underscores that formal surrender often follows catastrophic destruction. The formal act of surrender can be a negotiation of survival rather than a fair settlement. Historical examples from American Civil War communications emphasize that unconditional surrender can be demanded to stop bloodshed while promising respectful treatment of prisoners and rejecting negotiated capitulation terms.
"This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation." That was vice president J. Divan Vance on Meet the Press on Sunday, explaining why the Ukrainians should let Russia keep the land they've stolen, the children they've stolen, and the cities they've incinerated.
I thought it was very amusing that Vance mentioned the end of World War II shortly after we memorialized the 80th anniversary of how the United States negotiated the war's end by dropping atomic bombs on two Japanese cities. Yes, in the strict historical sense, the war ended when the Japanese signed the surrender documents aboard the USS Missouri, just as the war in Europe had ended a few months earlier when the Germans surrendered while Dresden, Hamburg, and Berlin were still smoldering ruins.
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