Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Confirmed Elbridge Colby to be Undersecretary of Defense For Policy by a vote of 54 to 45 but not without controversy. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) loudly proclaimed his opposition to Colby and voted against him.
McConnell voiced concern about what he called Colby’s desire to prioritize U.S. interests in the Indo-Pacific over those in Europe, Ukraine and the Middle East. “Abandoning Ukraine and Europe and downplaying the Middle East to prioritize the Indo-Pacific is not a clever geopolitical chess move. It is geostrategic self-harm that emboldens our adversaries and drives wedges between America and our allies for them to exploit,” he said in a statement explaining his vote, reported The Hill.
Vice President J.D. Vance slammed McConnell for his vote. “Mitch’s vote today—like so much of the last few years of his career—is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen,” Vance said in a post on social media platform X.
