“Violence never wins.”
-Vice President Michael Richard Pence Speech to Congress Jan 7, 2021
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However, when he laid out his foreign‐policy vision it was of constant conflict. Declared the vice president: “you are taking up your duties at a time of growing challenges to freedom all around the world.… And now you are going to join the fight.” As a result, “It is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for America at some point in your life. You will lead soldiers in combat. It will happen.”
Not just somewhere. But, well, just about everywhere. Explained Vice President Pence: “Some of you will join the fight against radical Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of you will join the fight on the Korean Peninsula and in the Indo‐Pacific region, where North Korea continues to threaten the peace, and an increasingly militarized China challenges our presence in the region. Some of you will join the fight in Europe, where an aggressive Russia seeks to redraw international boundaries by force. And some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere.”
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2019 Speech at West Point