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JD Vance declines to call U.S. action in Iran a 'war'

newsSep 3, 2026352,914

Vice President J.D. Vance told reporters in the James Brady Briefing Room “I wouldn’t call it a war” when asked for a timeline on the Iran conflict, more than six months after President Donald Trump announced the campaign. The Independent reports the campaign has killed 18 U.S. service members, wounded at least 750, and cost an estimated $71 billion to $118 billion. Vance said there is “no active shooting” between American and Iranian forces and described exchanges of fire as occasional “flare ups,” asserting major combat operations lasted about six weeks and claiming U.S. strikes named Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury destroyed Iranian nuclear facilities and damaged the defense industrial base. He declined to set an end date, saying questions about when the fighting stops are ones “you would have to ask the Iranians,” while also saying Washington has a responsibility to respond to attacks on commercial shipping because the U.S. is uniquely capable of preventing disruption to world energy markets. Vance framed U.S. strategy as using available tools to prevent an Iranian nuclear threat rather than relying on Iranian good faith. The comments came after President Trump called recent Iranian strikes a “love tap,” and follow reporting that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered extensions of troop deployments in the region through next year, signaling the administration is preparing to keep forces at a combat footing for the foreseeable future.

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The pictures of the USS Abraham at first glance look fake. Like yall know me I am not enthralled by deathweapons but my god that carrier is looking decrepit and wore out for what JD Vance is calling “not a war”. I am astounded in new awful ways every damn day by their escalating incompetent meanness

an aircraft with rust climbing up the sides and lining the deck fascia
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