James David Vance
Trots att Vance länge varit skeptisk till USA:s inblandning i krig utomlands har han fått en framträdande roll i fredsförhandlingarna mellan länderna
En överenskommelse skulle kräva att Iran faktiskt minskar sin kapacitet att anrika uran och inte bara lovar att göra det längre fram.
”Om ni inte vill ha kärnvapen, varför behöver ni då uran som är anrikat till 60 procent? Och om ni vill visa att ni verkligen inte tänker bygga kärnvapen, ska ni inte producera höganrikat uran. Det är en helt grundläggande fråga”.
DI 7 oktober 2026
https://www.di.se/nyheter/usa-s-iranforvirring-vem-ar-det-som-kor-egentligen/
Attention; the world’s most valuable resource.
The notion now is that at every single moment when you are competing for someone’s attention, you are competing against literally every piece of content ever produced.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and before them, Joe Biden — before the changeover, they were just terrified of an interview going badly. And Trump and Vance — they were all over the place, including in places very hostile to them.
Vance had a ton of interviews that went badly.
But they were everywhere. Because they cared about the volume of attention and were completely fine with the energy that negative attention could unlock.
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-trump-wields-and-uses-attentionhes.html
Then came Vice President JD Vance’s speech at Munich.
Serious Europeans were ready for tough medicine on defense spending and relations with China, and for a frank discussion of the approach to negotiations in Ukraine.
They received, instead, a lecture about the dangers decadent European democracies pose to themselves,
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/02/political-repression-gives-boost-to.html
Secretary of State Marco Rubio used a dramatic backdrop in Greece to remind the world of the Trump administration’s focus on the “unapologetic” pursuit of power, and issued another warning to Europe about the dangers of Western decline.
In a speech on a hill in front of the Acropolis in Athens, the top US diplomat invoked Renaissance figures and Hellenic icons as he explained that the US was intent on dominance and revival.
He also criticized other Western nations for letting their militaries wither and for ceding sovereignty to global institutions.
Rubio said the West finds itself “at a crossroads” with the next decade set to determine whether it “maintains its place at the head of the world or resigns itself to a future of atrophy /förtvining/, servitude/träldom/ and decline.”
“The United States has made its choice,” Rubio said. “We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power — to take back control of our critical supply chains, to re-industrialize our economy, to rebuild our defense, to fight for dominance of the technologies and industries of the future.”
Bloomberg 7 October 2026
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