Posted on 02/13/2025 8:43:19 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the U.S. would hit Moscow with sanctions and potentially military action if Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t agree to a peace deal with Ukraine that guarantees Kyiv’s long-term independence.
Vance said the option of sending U.S. troops to Ukraine if Moscow failed to negotiate in good faith remained “on the table,” striking a far tougher tone than did Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who on Wednesday suggested the U.S. wouldn’t commit forces.
“There are economic tools of leverage, there are of course military tools of leverage” the U.S. could use against Putin, Vance said.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal hours after President Trump said he would start negotiating with Putin to end the war in Ukraine, Vance said: “I think there is a deal that is going to come out of this that’s going to shock a lot of people.”
The vice president’s remarks, coming a day before a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, offered the Trump administration’s strongest-yet support for Kyiv in the face of Russian demands that it disarm and replace the current government.
“The president is not going to go in this with blinders on,” Vance said. “He’s going to say, ‘Everything is on the table, let’s make a deal.’”
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The end game is corporate access to Ukraine’s mineral wealth hating warring against Russia just a means to that end and the Ukrainian nationalists were used in the worst way dying by the thousands to that end...
“Tell your Zelensky the deal he gets is the deal he gets.”
Even Vance knows it’s for show, as he’s TOTALLY unwoke on Ukraine.
阿Q, your poor esl is showing.
Unbelievable, ain't it?
And the Ukrainians marched right in...
“ It’s not in Putin’s interest to be the little brother in a coalition with China,” Vance said.
Putin seems to think so.
He was big brother when he started feeding the Chcoms 30 years ago.
He still thinks he is.
Just do away with Putin. His life is over and useless.
Best plan for Vlad is to pack it up and go home before he crosses that point of no return.
The longer he stays in Ukraine, the greater his and Russia’s loss will be.
After all they’ve been through last century and now this, I feel sorry for the Russians.
They deserve better and maybe President Trump will help put them back on that path to success and a better life.
You'd best start looking for a new troll on Free Republic, marcus.
Looks like your Special Ukraine Sock is gonna to come up a dry hole...
Russia is nothing more than a vassal state of China now. Putin is going to regret inviting Xi to his May 9th “victory” parade in Red Square.
The Russian army is in the oblasts of the Russian Federation - Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Luhansk, the Russian Republic of Crimea and the Russian federal city of Sevastopol.
Not in the Ukraine.
Are you a Russian?
That annexation was recognized by North Korea. North Korea!!!
Every square inch of it belongs to Ukraine.
Liberate Alchevsk !!!! Death to the invaders !!!!
Mmmmmmm - milk that one-liner trollink for all you can get out of it, marcus.
Soon, the Sock will be dry.
Stay in your own Canadian lane, Chummie-boy.
“Are you a Russian?”
There are a few here I suspect of exactly that.
Also a possibility are disaffected Serbs. Serbian-Americans?
There are no such tells from these though.
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