JD VANCE DECLARES GLOBAL ARMS RACE
IMPLEMENTING THE AMERICAN COMPASS PLAN FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF A FISCAL-MILITARY STATE
By Dr. Digby James Wren
On the 23rd of May 2025 Vice President JD Vance delivered the Commencement Speech at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Beginning with a wish and a prayer for the class of 2025, the 50th vice-president had unwittingly indicated the ‘incredible’ mission of US defence policy and planning “in this new and very dangerous era for our country.”
President Trump’s “very historic” trip to meet the heads of state in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, which ostensibly secured “trillions of dollars of new investment,” had signalled the end of a decades-long “experiment” in foreign policy, declared Vance. Cold-War era administrations had departed from the precedent set by the American founding fathers and “traded national defense and the maintenance of our alliances for nation-building and meddling in foreign countries’ affairs. Even when those foreign countries had very little to do with ‘core’ American interests.”
Vance was referring to John Quincy Adams’ July 4, 1821, oration in which he said that;
America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy” [and] that an America that aspired to world leadership, even in the name of noble ideas, would be led astray: She might become the dictatress of the world, [but] she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.”
The prediction of John Quincy Adams, assimilated into the American Compass world view scripted by Oren Cass, provided the central theme for Vance’s address, which lauded President Trump’s “generational shift in policy” to split from the disastrous unipolar ‘experiment’ following the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Post-Cold War era policy elites, asserted Vance, believed as a superpower without peer, American primacy was perpetual. No foreign power could rise to compete with the United States. ‘The End of History’ sought by America’s post-Cold War leaders, presumably inspired by the notions of the recently deceased Josef Nye and other misguided Harvard scholars, had traded “hard power for soft power,” said Vance.