JD Vance Hit With Community Note Over WWII Claim

JD Vance was hit with a Community Note after claiming, on Meet the Press, that every major conflict in history, including World War II, ended with “some kind of negotiation.” Readers quickly corrected him, pointing out that WWII ended with the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945 and Imperial Japan in September 1945.

The Allied powers had explicitly demanded unconditional surrender since the 1943 Casablanca Conference to avoid any perception of compromise or negotiated settlement.

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While post-war treaties and arrangements were negotiated later, the war itself concluded on

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