JD Vance Schooled Over ‘Clueless’ Historical Claim: ‘Does He Know Anything?’

<script>!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);</script><script id="68ac34b9e4b08b3201edf31d">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b","mediaId":"a599476e-c600-47bc-88f6-a5eb2c687ea8"}).render("68ac34b9e4b08b3201edf31d");});</script><div class="content-list-component text"><p>Vice President JD Vance was hit with a short, sharp history lesson after making what critics slammed as a “clueless” claim about world history during an interview that aired on Sunday.</p><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-world-war-2-russia-ukraine_n_68ab4784e4b0434e01af8c5a" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Speaking with NBC’s Kristen Welker</a> about efforts to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vance argued that conflicts have ended in compromise.</p><p>“If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation,” the veep said on “Meet The Press.”</p><p>But social media users ― including historians ― were quick to point out that’s not true. World War II, for example, ended not with a negotiation but with the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan.</p><p>And critics online wasted no time reminding Vance of that fact:</p><