This is their government. Vance is their puppet. This is what they wanted. Andreesen's little pseudo-manifesto a couple years back was fairly explicitly taking

This is their government. Vance is their puppet. This is what they wanted. Andreesen's little pseudo-manifesto a couple years back was fairly explicitly taking anti-liberal positions, and some that were outright anti-enlightenment. Not surprising really. We now see an alliance between the tech sector of the US economy and the oil and gas sector. Remember Putin is effectively oil baron/executive, not just the leader of a country.