The remaining “establishment” GOP figures opposed to any disengagement from Europe are thoroughly freaked out by convicted felon former President Trump’s pick of eyeliner-wearing Ohio Senator JD Vance as his new running mate to replace the guy who almost got hanged, with House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee chair reacting by telling an aide that “The Ukrainians better hurry up and win,” while another pro-Kyiv GOP member told Politico that he/she is “scared to death.”

“I would love to see more like-minded people in cabinet positions,” Iowa Senator Joni Ernst said, citing fellow hawks such as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Senator Tom Cotton, as “Ernst-esque” picks, apparently her way of saying she really didn’t want Vance as Vice President.

Meanwhile the share price of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company fell 2.37 percent on Wednesday after the Orange Shitbrain told Bloomberg Businessweek that the endangered island country, an American ally, “takes about 100 percent of our chip business. I think, Taiwan should pay us for defense. You know, we’re no different than an insurance company. Taiwan doesn’t give us anything. Taiwan is 9,500 miles away. It’s 68 miles away from China. A slight advantage, and China’s a massive piece of land, they could just bombard it. They don’t even need to—I mean, they can literally just send shells. Now they don’t want to do that because they don’t want to lose all those chip plants. You know, all those plants and they don’t want to do that. But I will tell you, that’s the apple of President Xi’s eye, he was a very good friend of mine until Covid that I really, you know, I was, I didn’t feel the same way. Same thing with Putin. Putin and I got along very well…”