JD Vance tells immigrants to abandon previous loyalties and embrace American interests: Part of the bargain

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance advised immigrants to the US to give up their previous country’s loyalties and embrace American interests — saying it’s “offensive” to “use” their influence in a new country to settle conflicts in the old.Vance, 40, took to X on Tuesday to rant about a Ukrainian American he met on the campaign trail who said the then-vice president didn’t have the nation’s interests in mind.“During my senate campaign in 2022, I met a Ukrainian-American man in NE Ohio.He was very angry about my views on the conflict, and my desire to bring it to a rapid close,” Vance wrote, adding that the man told him, “You are trying to abandon my country, and I don’t like it.”“‘Sir, I replied, ‘your country is the United States of America, and so is mine,'” Vance wrote.

The vice president added that he finds it “offensive” when individuals use American influence to try to end conflicts at home.“I always found it offensive that a new immigrant to our country would be willing to use the power and influence of their new nation to settle the ethnic rivalries of the old.

One of the most important parts of assimilation is seeing *your* country as the USA.It’s part of the bargain: if you’re welcomed into our national family, you ought to look out for the interests of the United States,” Vance continued in his lengthy X post.“I know many immigrants who have the right perspective, and I’m grateful to them.

For example, I met many Ukrainian Americans during that campaign (and since) who agreed with my views, or at the very least, asked the right question: what is in the best interests of the United States?”The vice president has long been an outspoken critic of US military assistance to war-torn Ukraine, which just marked the three-year anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion.Even before the bloody war broke out in February 2022, Vance publicly stated that he didn’t “really care what happens to Ukraine one ...