CNN’s Jake Tapper came right out and asked Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) whether his solution to the Ukraine-Russia war was “to just surrender.”

On Sunday’s State of the Union, Tapper said, “You wrote an op-ed in The New York Times saying that you don’t think it makes sense the Biden pitch for aid to Ukraine. You’ve been accused of appeasement. You’ve been accused of surrender. Even the National Review had a column about that…I do want you to address that because the National Review is basically saying that your solution to the problem of Russia invading a sovereign nation, Ukraine, is to just surrender. Are they wrong?”

Vance answered, “No, look, my solution to the problem is to rebuild our own country. The reason that we’re in this position, Jake, is because we’re stretched way too thin. We’re stretched way too thin.” Vance continued:

And the number of weapons systems that we need, Ukraine needs, that Taiwan needs, that Israel needs, and we can’t do all of these things at once. So, when you’re stretched too thin, you’ve got to focus and you’ve got to rebuild your own country.

“Let’s take just one of those weapons systems that we’re talking about, 155 millimeter artillery shells. The Russians currently have a five-to-one advantage over the Ukrainians. The Israelis will need this stuff. The Taiwanese need this stuff. And, of course, America needs this stuff. Can we possibly fight all of those conflicts all at once? No, the math just doesn’t make sense. So what we should be doing is with Ukraine, encouraging them to take a defensive posture, not these disastrous counteroffensives the Biden administration has been promoting.

Tapper reminded Vance that the counteroffensive “is within Ukraine” and “they’re not seeking land from Russia.”

“I’m not passing judgment on the morality of what they’re doing,” Vance said.  “Of course, it’s their territory, Jake, but you have to acknowledge military reality on the ground if they’re going to waste a ton of money, a ton of lives, and a ton of ammunition on a counter offensive strategy. But a defensive strategy might actually work. We’ve got to choose the strategy that might actually work.”

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