Posted on 02/14/2025 6:27:57 PM PST by marshmallow
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the Wall Street Journal article by saying Vance's threats represented new elements of the US position that need to be clarified during future talks
WASHINGTON, February 14. /TASS/. US Vice President JD Vance accused the Wall Street Journal of distorting his comments about the possibility of sending US troops to Ukraine.
"The fact that the WSJ twisted my words in the way they did for this story is absurd, but not surprising considering they have spent years pushing for more American sons and daughters in uniform to be unnecessarily deployed overseas," he said on X.
"President Trump is the ultimate deal maker and will bring peace to the region by ending the war in Ukraine. As we've always said, American troops should never be put into harm's way where it doesn’t advance American interests and security. This war is between Russia and Ukraine," Vance continued.
The WSJ earlier reported that Vance said the option of sending US troops to Ukraine remains on the table, should Moscow refuse to negotiate "in good faith." The US could use "economic tools of leverage and of course military tools of leverage" against Russia, Vance was quoted as saying.
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the Wall Street Journal article by saying Vance's threats represented new elements of the US position that need to be clarified during future talks.
On February 12, Putin and Trump spoke by phone and discussed, among other things, the prospects for resolving the situation in Ukraine. According to the Kremlin, the US president called for a ceasefire and a peaceful resolution to be reached as soon as possible. Putin stated that the root causes of the conflict need to be addressed and agreed with Trump that a lasting settlement could be achieved through peace talks, the Kremlin said.
That’s what leftists do...
That’s what zeepers do...
Twist words.
Mr. Vice-President. There is no sense wrestling with in the mud with the WaPo pigs.
I have to side with TASS as I don’t believe it is being funded by USAID.
The same cannot be said for the Aussie born globalist scumbag’s rag.
| In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Vance Accuses WSJ of ‘Twisting’ His Words About Potentially Sending US Troops to Ukraine, Biblebelter wrote: |
I have to side with TASS as I don’t believe it is being funded by USAID. The same cannot be said for the Aussie born globalist scumbag’s rag. |
I agree- I don't believe TASS is being funded by USAID.
But USAID was used to support some Russian 'journals/news' and I'm guessing we'll find it was publishing opposition to Putin and the war in Ukraine.
I would kick the WSJ out of the White House press room.
Send all remaining Hamas to live in Crimea and Ukraine. Evacuate Gaza.
And this is what peepers do. Quote Tass.
I’d believe Tass before I’d believe the Brookings Institute, WSJ, Washington Post, NYTs, Kiev Independent, The Hill, Axios, Daily Mail and dubious youtube influencers such as Denys Davydov, The Enforcer, The Russian Dude...sources frequently used by zeepers.
When one is accustomed to consuming the communist American MSM as a matter of course, it's good to hear from a freedom-loving news source, occasionally.
Vance's comments were made on the social media platform X. Musk owns it. TASS is simply relaying what was said. If, perhaps, you feel that TASS has fabricated the quotes, you could take yourself to X, find Vance's account and let us know if the TASS quotes are accurate.
Unfortunately, American news outlets won't publish Vance's comments. At least not in their entirety and not in a form which transmits their intended meaning. There's a lot of news about America in TASS that CNN and MSNBC and the Daily Mail won't publish. It's a little like the Cold War in reverse. TASS is today's Radio Free Europe beaming in news to American cretins for whom it will always be 1962.
Excerpt from full transcript of the speech that JD Vance gave at the Munich Security Conference this afternoon.
We gather at this conference, of course, to discuss security. And normally we mean threats to our external security. I see many, many great military leaders gathered here today. But while the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine – and we also believe that it’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defence – the threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values: values shared with the United States of America.
I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election. He warned that if things don’t go to plan, the very same thing could happen in Germany too.
Now, these cavalier statements are shocking to American ears. For years we’ve been told that everything we fund and support is in the name of our shared democratic values. Everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defence of democracy. But when we see European courts cancelling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we’re holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard. And I say ourselves, because I fundamentally believe that we are on the same team.
We must do more than talk about democratic values. We must live them. Now, within living memory of many of you in this room, the cold war positioned defenders of democracy against much more tyrannical forces on this continent. And consider the side in that fight that censored dissidents, that closed churches, that cancelled elections. Were they the good guys? Certainly not.
And thank God they lost the cold war. They lost because they neither valued nor respected all of the extraordinary blessings of liberty, the freedom to surprise, to make mistakes, invent, to build. As it turns out, you can’t mandate innovation or creativity, just as you can’t force people what to think, what to feel, or what to believe. And we believe those things are certainly connected. And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it’s sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the cold war’s winners.
If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you
I look to Brussels, where EU Commission commissars warned citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest: the moment they spot what they’ve judged to be ‘hateful content’. Or to this very country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of ‘combating misogyny’ on the internet.
I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago, the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Quran burnings that resulted in his friend’s murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden’s laws to supposedly protect free expression do not, in fact, grant – and I’m quoting – a ‘free pass’ to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief.
And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs. A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Conner, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an Army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 metres from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes, not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, it was on behalf of his unborn son.
He and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. Now the officers were not moved. Adam was found guilty of breaking the government’s new Buffer Zones Law, which criminalises silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person’s decision within 200 metres of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution.
“Unfortunately, American news outlets won’t publish Vance’s comments. At least not in their entirety and not in a form which transmits their intended meaning. There’s a lot of news about America in TASS that CNN and MSNBC and the Daily Mail won’t publish. It’s a little like the Cold War in reverse. TASS is today’s Radio Free Europe beaming in news to American cretins for whom it will always be 1962.”
Absolutely. The best place to get news about the US is from foreign papers, especially America haters, who gleefully report every sordid fact.
The WSJ has been trash for many years now.
That will send a message like nothing else.
TASS loves freedom?
"...I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago, the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Quran burnings that resulted in his friend’s murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden’s laws to supposedly protect free expression do not, in fact, grant – and I’m quoting – a ‘free pass’ to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief..."
That shows to me, about J.D. Vance: He GETS it. He understands fully the 1st Amendment.
I must say-I love hearing our OWN government right now GETS freedom of speech now, from the top down, and I believe that STILL makes the United States a beacon of freedom, even with all its Deep State troubles, to the world.
Right now, in February 2025, we are STILL nearly the only country with a government that "GETS IT"!
That makes me prouder to be an American than a dog with two tails!
“American troops should never be put into harm’s way where it doesn’t advance American interests and security. This war is between Russia and Ukraine,” Vance continued.”
Any questions?
bttt
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