Vice President JD Vance made an abrupt about-face this week as the escalating tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India began “spiraling out of control,” Bloomberg’s Mario Parker explained Sunday.
As CNN’s Manu Raju reported, Vance on Thursday downplayed the United States’ role in brokering peace between Pakistan and India, arguing the tensions are “fundamentally none of our business.”
“India has its gripes with Pakistan. Pakistan has responded to India,” Vance told Fox News. “What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit, but we're not going to get involved in the middle of a war that's fundamentally none of our business.”
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“Yet JD Vance and [U.S. Secretary of State] Marco Rubio did intervene,” Raju reported Sunday, asking Parker what he’s “learning about the way this played out behind the scenes.”
“What we're seeing is the fact that reality has met doctrine, right?” Parker replied. “The [Make America Great Again] doctrine of ‘America First.’ None of our business. Hands off of foreign affairs — but the reality of two nuclear-armed nations quickly escalating.”
Parker said “the messages that the U.S., that Washington, was sending to both countries just was going unheeded.”
“Things were spiraling out of control,” Parker added.
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After the reporter detailed the escalation between the two nations, he noted the White House realized “this was, again, spiraling out of control.”
According to Parker, Vance briefed President Donald Trump on a plan to call Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Rubio “worked his his diplomatic ties."
“And then we got to a ceasefire,” Parker explained.
Raju interjected, adding it’s “important [to note] that [ceasefire] is tenuous right now.”
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“There still are embers burning,” Parker explained before the rest of the panel weighed in.
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