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JD Vance Hit With Community Note Over WW 2 Claim
JD Vance has been hit with an epic community note on X after claiming World War 2 ended with a negotiated peace agreement.
The US president made the bizarre claim as he defended his administration’s attempts to end the Iran war.
Vance said: “This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to World War 1, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.”
But a community note on X pointed out that World War 2 ended “with unconditional surrenders by Germany on May 8, 1945, and Japan on September 2, 1945, rather than negotiation.”
Social media users were just as unforgiving about the vice-president’s historical gaffe.
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