JD Vance on NBC: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation." Fact check: FALSE β Hitler committed suicide as the Russian Army neared his bunker in WW2.
Japan negotiating their surrender onboard the USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, August 1945. www.facebook.com/USMCMuseum/v...
Also, Germany signed a surrender--not a peace agreement. Germany did not get to state its conditions for peace.
Yes, WWII was brought to an end following the charm offensive in Normandy, preliminary talks in Italy, sustained conferences at Leningrad, Stalingrad, & Kursk, & street-by-street summit talks in Berlin in 1945. This is why the GOP (like the NSDAP) are SO committed to respectful exchanges of views.
And then thereβs how the war got settled for Japanβ¦
There may have been some exchange about time and place in advance of the unconditional surrender. Perhaps that is what he means.
Japan enters the chat π
Typical rewriting history to fit their narrative.
My maternal grandparents were medical staff in casualty clearing stations of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division, "negotiating" hard in Sicily and Italy until the fascists unconditionally surrendered. I think about them a lot these days.