On Monday, while flying back from Rome, Vice President J.D. Vance offered reporters his take on the war in Ukraine. “I think, honestly, that President Putin, he doesn’t quite know how to get out of the war,” Vance said aboard Air Force Two. “He’s got a million men under arms. He’s reengineered his entire economy. What used to be manufacturing facilities making products for people to use in their civilian lives are now making tank shells and artillery shells and drones. And so, this is a little bit of a guess—and I’m sure the president would agree—but I’m not sure that Vladimir Putin has a strategy himself for how to unwind the war.”