If Vice President J.D. Vance hoped to earn respect among international leaders with his speech in Germany last week, it wouldn’t work, according to one senior diplomat.
If Vice President J.D. Vance hoped to earn respect among international leaders with his speech in Germany last week, it wouldn’t work, according to one senior diplomat.
Grift is a word that is interchangeably used with scam or con (as in a confidence game)
The con here is that there is nothing substantive in Vance’s speech. It was simply designed to cause a rift between the US and Europe
The goal is to reestablish the Russian Empire in order to help facilitate a global plutocracy
Divide and conquer
I get all that, but where’s the money from the con? Grift is most literally about obtaining money.