In her New Yorker column, Susan B. Glasser writes that Donald Trump stripped J. D. Vance of responsibility for negotiating peace with Iran hours after a Wall Street Journal report said Vance was open to meeting Tehran's negotiator, days after Vance blamed the Republicans' epic 2026 midterm drubbing on the war. Glasser sees the split as a once-unthinkable break between a President who ran on "no new wars" and a Vice-President who never backed the one he started, with Trump left choosing among negotiate, escalate, or strangulate.