This has all happened before (+debunking JD nonsense)

There is historical precedent for President Trump’s latest.

Dr. Carter Malkasian, author of The [1953] Korean War:

“Rhee [President of South Korea] vociferously opposed the armistice. He wanted Korea unified and all Chinese forces withdrawn from Korea. Koreans filled the streets of Seoul and other cities throughout South Korea to demonstrate. Most South Koreans supported President Rhee’s stance that an armistice should not be concluded until North Korea was liberated. Rhee was intransigent.”

President Eisenhower’s biographer, Stephen E. Ambrose:

“[In 1953] Walter Robertson [Assistant Secretary of State] and General Clark [Commander of United Nations forces] were conferring daily with South Korean President Rhee, threatening him with an American pull-out if he did not cooperate in the armistice, promising him virtually unlimited American aid if he did. Rhee resisted the pressure, helped by reports from the [United] States that seemed to indicate a near revolt by Republican senators against their own Administration. [Republican Senator for Vermont] Ralph Flanders had said that Robertson and Clark were putting ‘us in the position of threatening the Korean government with an attack from the rear while the Republic of Korea Army were attacking the Communists at the front’. [Republican leader in the Senate Styles] Bridges and [Joseph] McCarthy believed that ‘freedom-loving people’ should applaud Rhee’s defiance of the armistice… On July 5, the acting majority leader, Senator Knowland blamed Eisenhower for a ‘breach’ with Rhee and announced his support for Korean unification before any armistice agreement was signed. Despite the clamor, Eisenhower insisted that Robertson and Clark be firm. They were, and ultimately persuaded Rhee that it was futile for South Korea to try to go it alone. On July 8 [15 days ahead of the Korean Armistice Agreement being signed], Rhee finally issued a public statement promising to cooperate.”

Zelensky has just commendably backed down in a similar way:

There is also historical precedent for the actions of Zelensky on Friday.

Stephen E. Ambrose:

“The next day, [Secretary of State] Dulles called Eisenhower on the telephone to inform the President that Rhee had just sent a message demanding ironclad guarantees of post-truce American aid. Dulles said that it appeared to him ‘as if Rhee at the last minute was trying to run out on his commitment to us’. Eisenhower said he was ‘astonished’ at this development and instructed the Secretary to tell Rhee that ‘this is what we can do and beyond that we cannot go’. Dulles sent the word to Rhee, and when the truce was finally signed, two days later, Rhee made no public protest.”

Events since Friday are a well-worn pattern in history.

Lastly, Vice President Vance was not attacking the UK at all. The Economist two weeks ago:

Ignore ~all British commentators who interpreted his comments falsely.

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