JD Vance warns Naval Academy graduates ‘era of uncontested US dominance is over’

Vice President JD Vance gave the commencement speech at the Naval Academy on Friday, where he issued a grim warning.

Vance stressed the importance of the mission that the graduates will be asked to undertake and specifically discussed the “implications” of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy campaign.

“What we’re seeing from President Trump is a generational shift in policy with profound implications for the job that each and every one of you will be asked to do,” the vice president explained.

“The era of uncontested U.S. dominance is over. Today we face serious threats in China, Russia and other nations determined to beat us in every single domain—from spectrum to low earth orbit to supply chains to even our communication infrastructure,” he added.

“Instead of devoting our energies to responding to the rise of near-peer competitors like China, our leaders pursued what they assumed would be easy jobs for the world’s preemptive superpower. How hard could it be to build a few democracies in the Middle East? Well, almost impossibly hard, it turns out, and unbelievably costly,” Vance continued.

University of Michigan professor and former senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, Javed Ali, celebrated Vance’s remarks as “the latest and perhaps clearest articulation of the transformational shift underway in President Trump’s second term.”

“While aligning U.S. national security to America’s core interests has been expressed by other presidents, including during President Trump’s first term, the events of the last 100 days upon his return to office indicate a markedly different direction and higher velocity of change,” he said.

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