Vance emphasizes ‘generational shift’ in US foreign policy at Naval Academy graduation

Vice President JD Vance heralded the administration’s new foreign policy approach as a “generational shift” during his address to the graduating class at the U.S. Naval Academy.

In his speech on Friday, Vance praised the outcomes of President Donald Trump’s trip to the Middle East and bashed the foreign policies of recent presidents, whom he argued were too focused on nation-building across the globe.

“I actually think the most significant part of that trip is that it signified the end of a decadeslong approach in foreign policy that I think was a break from the precedent set by our founding fathers,” he said. “We had a long experiment in our foreign policy that traded national defense and maintenance of our alliances for nation-building and meddling in

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