The last time a US president visited another country during its election campaign, in any capacity, was in 1996 when Democrat Bill Clinton traveled to Israel. During meetings with incumbent Prime Minister Shimon Peres, Clinton spoke favorably of Peres and his Labor party as reliable US allies, but did not take a position on which political party or candidates he or the US supported in Israel’s election campaign in progress at the time.

During his soccer stadium appearance, Vance reiterated longstanding Trump regime narratives blaming Ukraine for purportedly undermining the peace process in the Russo-Ukraine War, and suggested that Ukrainian spy networks were – purportedly – seeking to interfere with free and fair elections in the US and Hungary alike.

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Vance made no reference to a ballooning scandal in Hungary that the Kremlin for years had exploited a backchannel to confidential EU planning and security information via Péter Szijjártó, Orbán’s Foreign Minister, who allegedly turned over the materials to Russia.

The Hungary election has become the geopolitical focus of much of the world, including JD Vance who seems determined to embarass himself globally as well as domestically in the US.

JD Vance is a dangerous joke that endangers world peace.