Vice President JD Vance took aim at Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over her remarks about foreign policy during the Munich Security Conference, saying she is “somebody who doesn’t know what she actually thinks.”
Speaking on Fox News, Vance said the lawmaker is among politicians who “are given lines and when you ask them to go outside the lines they’re given, they fall apart.”
“Anybody really believes AOC has very thoughtful ideas about the global world order or what the U.S. should do with our policy in Asia or Europe? This is a person who is mouthing the slogans that somebody else gave her. It shows how thin the Democrats’ policy actually is with all these questions,” he added.
VANCE: “AOC is somebody who doesn’t know what she actually thinks. Politicians are given lines and when you ask them to go outside the lines they’re given, they fall apart… This is a person who is mouthing the slogans that somebody else gave her.” pic.twitter.com/rOehek2x7Y
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AOC made headlines over the weekend with remarks on different foreign policy matters, including Venezuela, Iran and Israel. She also slammed President Donald Trump, saying his administration is “looking to withdraw the U.S. from the entire world so that we enter an age of authoritarians who can carve it up.”
She claimed that Trump’s end goal is to “command the Western Hemisphere and Latin America and his personal sandbox.” Such a global scenario, she added, would allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to “saber-rattle across Europe and try to bully our allies there” and authoritarians to “essentially control their own geographic domains.”
On Iran, she avoided saying whether she would support strikes on the country’s nuclear facilities if ongoing negotiations with Tehran over its program end without an agreement.
“What the regime is doing in regard with protesters is horrific. The slaughter of tens of thousands of people. Now I think that jumping into strikes is, there’s still so much we can do to avoid that scenario,” she said.
And on Israel she claimed that the country is committing genocide in Gaza and that aid to should not be unconditional. “This isn’t just about a presidential election. The US has an obligation to uphold its own laws. Unconditional aid, no matter what one does, does not make sense. I think it enabled a genocide in Gaza, and I think that we have thousands of women and children dead that was completely avoidable,” she said.
Originally published on Latin Times
