JD Vance argued that US support for NATO should be contingent on Europe being good to Elon Musk and "X." (Seriously, he did.) I think the United States of America should place a lot more value on national security and US allies than on boosting a business owned by a rich donor a VP candidate likes.

The media could make a huge scandal out of a Vice Presidential nominee explicitly promising to condition American foreign policy on what was good for a single billionaire donor. I’m quite confident they would if Walz said something similar.

If you give an answer like that, the true answer is that they won't support NATO.

Vance is a pariah.

That is crazy and yet completely believable. Is there a link to a story about this? Google is failing me because Google fails all the time these days.

As I understand it, it has ALWAYS been like that, but they used to at least put a fig leaf on it. The sheer open contempt politicians and billionaires have for the rest of us is becoming intolerable. I really don't want to know what it looks like when they cross that line.

Wonder what place America comes in this scenario? Doesn’t seem like first. Hmm.

What would the US Kleptocracy Look Like for 100 Alex.

Vance, Trump, and everyone supporting them are traitorous scum.

Article 5 makes it clear that an attack on Musk is an attack on all.