Vance’s Israel-Iran equivalence is surrender dressed as realism

On June 17, 2026, President Donald Trump defended Iran’s ballistic missiles as “self-defense,” floated U.S. Space Force monitoring of Iranian uranium — should extraction prove “impossible” — as a solution, and dismissed skeptics of his Iran memorandum as “losers” too blind to recognize his “genius.” Vice President JD Vance supplied the doctrine the next day. […]