A reader of the blog called Quickwrit submitted this important comment about JD Vance’s condescending speech to European leaders about why they should include neo-Nazis and fascists in their political life.

Quickwrit wrote:

SPITTING ON AMERICAN BLOOD

The soil of Europe is soaked with the blood of American soldiers who died in World War II to stamp out nazism, and Vance spat on that blood-soaked soil by urging that European leaders allow nazism to rise again.

And how bitterly sad all those countless American heroes who spilled their blood to end nazism must feel when they look down on our nation today and see nazi flags flying and people wearing nazi tattoos.

My father came back from fighting World War II a broken man from the horrors of war against the nazis…but at least he came back. He would feel that he and all those who died to end nazism have been betrayed to see nazi flags and symbols in America which Vance dresses up by calling it “populism”.

AND THEN Trump says that Ukraine should not have gone to war with Russia just because Russia invaded Ukraine — that’s like saying that the United States should not have gone to war with Japan just because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

To take the analogy just another step further. Why did we go to war with Germany? Germany did not attack us. Germany did not invade our nation. Should we have stayed out of the war and allowed Hitler to overrun all of Europe? No, we were defending the idea of democracy. Were our allies perfect democracies? No. Were we? No. But the alternative was far, far worse.

Vance can’t see the difference between Ukraine, which for three years has resisted a brutal aggressor, and the aggressor.

Vance, Trump, and Musk whine that Zelensky has not held an election since 2018, so he must be a dictator. When did their buddy Putin last hold an election in which his rivals were allowed to compete? Never? They had the misfortune of being murdered before the elections. His last rival was sent to a Siberian labor camp, where he mysteriously died, even though he appeared in good health in all the photos of him.