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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Empty words and threats. None of the will work, all of those things have been tried for decades. What Military action is he talking about, Nuclear War? Then we all die.
I don’t care about the large corrupt communist country or the small corrupt fascist country. There’s no way in hell Trump is wasting American lives on this globalist boondoggle but it’s a clever negotiating tactic to use JD as the pit bull.
This war ends soon.
The array of rhetorical tricks here is worse than CNN or MSNBC.
Actually time is very much on Putin and Russia’s side. They hold the main cards, we don’t. Russia is now bombing Kiev and pushing forward. The war may be over soon enough. Then what little leverage is left, peace will be on Russia’s terms.
Reality says that for the last few years, those Ukrainian oblasts are where Russian troops go to die and have their equipment destroyed.
And the longer they stay in Ukraine, the greater their losses will be. Sad, but true.
That would be suicidal, contrary to everything represented as a reason to vote for Trump and swiftly end the Trump presidency were that to happen. So NO, it’s a lie.
VP Vance is telling the truth.
Good Cop , bad Cop.
What Andriivka, Vremivka and Dvorichna doink?
No, he’s not. And he’s also starting to resemble diarrhea mouth.
Looks like fake news. If not, Vance just undid any goodwill that Trump created today with Putin. Maybe that’s the purpose of the article. We should know tomorrow.
“ Russia is nothing more than a vassal state of China now.”
True enough. Putin doesn’t think so, though.
We call them Ivans.
A lot of them parasite here.
A lot of them.
And if they’re not Ivan’s or Chicoms, they ain’t right. Probably kkk type losers.
Merely the WSJ spouting their Council on Foreign Relations talking points. Trump doesn’t give one turd about Ukraine; its Russia’s backyard and the EU’s quagmire if they want to go there.
Vlad’s war of conquest is nothing more than stealing from the neighbors and has come at a very high price, paid for with the coin of life from the purse that can never be refilled … and it ain’t over yet.
No win in this life for those dead Russians and no reward in the next one for what Putin is doing. Sad, but true.
Why aren’t you concerned with the dead Ukrainians?
Or are they just cannon fodder to you and your Lindsay Graham?
Strange placement of quotes in the article too, almost like taken out of context. It sounds like the cold war relic Kellogg talking. Will know more tomorrow.
Polish news now reporting a Polish Delegation comprising of Polish historians are in Moscow……time to carve up that corrupted country called Ukraine into pieces, Poland, Romania, Hungary , Slovakia each get their historic lands back leaving St Z with a rump nation.
Make it so.
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