Trump Vice President Vance HAS Known His Boss was Out of touch in the Iran War……

The NY Times keeps digging behind the scenes on the Trump 2.0 admin action…..

This latest piece points to a Vice President that WAS against a Iran War taking it upon HIMSELF to dig within the high US Military commanders to get a unvarnished appraisal of the War…..

Vice President Vance got the assessments….

Separate from their boss Defense Sec. Hegseth?

They WHERE Worried about a conflict that’s/IS draining American Defense weapons supplies and hurting moral with a extended deployment and NO sense of progress against Iran…..

The Times published a piece several weeks ago with the general info Vance was receiving….

The response?

Lie detector tests…..

MORE attack’s against Iran….

President Donald J. Trump IS STUCK in a situation of his own making….

He seems to be listening to his Defense Sec Hegseth, who , on a ‘crusade’ , isn’t listening to ANYONE and keeps pushing with NO regard for anything….

And?

Hegseth continues to try keep the media, Congress and the American people in the dark about the Reality of the conflict…..

Vance may KNOW that situation…..

But seems unable to influence things against his boss and Hegseth….

(Vance LEADS in the 2028 Republican Presidential nomination polling….He WILL be carrying Trump’s War on his back for his campaign …How does he deal with the War while Trump IS STILL the President….Vance’s BOSS?)

The General’s just follow orders….

Even if the orders are actually hurting Iran and the American Military…..

Vice President JD Vance took the unusual step over the spring and summer of calling U.S. military commanders in the Middle East, Europe and Asia directly, seeking their unvarnished assessments of the Iran war, according to current and former officials.

Mr. Vance, who opposed the war from the outset and was charged by President Trump with helping to end the conflict, wanted the commanders’ individual judgments, in their own words, before they were consolidated into a Pentagon view.

The conversations delved into an array of issues related to the war, including its objectives, tactics, casualty estimates, what the Iranians would do in the Strait of Hormuz, how adaptable they had become and how much punishment their government could absorb. Mr. Vance also asked for a detailed accounting of what remained in the commanders’ stockpiles, and how the transfer of weapons to the Middle East would affect their ability to deter China, Russia and North Korea.

On that last point, the commanders were blunt. They were most worried about their depleted stocks of Patriot interceptors, the backbone of their air defenses. By late spring, one theater was down to fewer than 100 of them. The war had also exhausted the theater’s supplies of the Army Tactical Missile Systems, which can reach 190 miles, along with stores of the Precision Strike Missiles, which were meant to replace them. Stocks of critical munitions such as these, they told the vice president, were the lowest they had ever seen….

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The officials’ accounts, taken together, show how Mr. Vance has sought to surface a greater level of detail and nuance about the war. They also help to flesh out hotly debated questions about what kinds of information about the war Mr. Trump is receiving, and from whom. And for Mr. Vance, who had only limited national security experience before he became vice president, they show how he is now immersed in a costly and inconclusive war that could shadow him in a potential 2028 presidential campaign….

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There was a gulf between the sobering private assessments that Mr. Vance received and what top administration officials, including the president and vice president, have said publicly. Mr. Trump has continued to falsely claim that the United States has already won the war, that the Iranian military has been demolished and that there are no problems with U.S. weapons supplies. And Mr. Vance recently downplayed the idea that the United States was even engaged in a war….

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Mr. Vance’s opposition to the war was no secret inside the White House. In the weeks leading up to Feb. 28, he argued against the operation in meetings in the Oval Office and Situation Room, at times to Mr. Trump’s considerable irritation, according to officials who discussed the matter with the president. But once Mr. Trump made up his mind, Mr. Vance defended the decision in public, including during tense television interviews.

The vice president also became the public face of the peace effort, running a series of talks that yielded a memorandum of understanding in June. Its 60-day window closed in August with no agreement and with the two sides seemingly further apart than when the negotiations started….

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Mr. Vance has developed a reputation inside the Trump administration for steeping himself in operational detail, a habit that some officials admire and others regard as too much in the weeds. Where Mr. Trump works in a way that leaves even his aides guessing how he arrives at decisions, Mr. Vance obsessively tracks the daily minutiae, including military operations, the internal dynamics of the Iranian political system and the sourcing of intelligence assessments…..

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