The JD Vance interview - explained

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UnHerd’s US Editor, Sohrab Ahmari, talks to Editor-in-Chief Freddie Sayers about his exclusive interview with US Vice President JD Vance. The interview marked the VP’s first major interview with a European outlet since taking office and topped headlines across the Britain, Europe and America, sending the UK’s FTSE ‘surging’ on the VP’s remarks of a potential US-UK trade deal in the works, prompting a positive response from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government.

In this reaction video, Sohrab and Freddie discuss the impact of the interview and the major news lines from the Vice President from his comments about European independence and ‘vassal state’ status to how he uses social media to break the inevitable bubble his office brings.

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// TIMECODES //

00:00 - 1:40 - Introduction
1:40 - 07:10 - JD Vance on Zelensky and the Ukraine war
07:10 - 12:15 - JD Vance’s love of Europe and personal philosophy
12:15 - 23:25 - The US Vice President on European immigration policies an international populism
23:25 - 27:00 - Is a US-UK free trade deal on the horizon?
27:00 - 29:40 - JD Vance on rebalancing global trade
29:40 - 34:52 - Why is the Vice President a fan of Twitter?
34:52 - Concluding thoughts


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