Posted on 11/25/2025 12:01:02 PM PST by Mariner
Vice President Vance fired back at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday after the former Senate republican leader warned the Trump administration not to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin in the emerging Ukraine peace deal.
“This is a ridiculous attack on the president’s team, which has worked tirelessly to clean up the mess in Ukraine that Mitch–always eager to write blank checks to Biden’s foreign policy–left us,” Vance wrote in a post on the social platform X.
“I wonder if the three candidates to replace McConnell in Kentucky share his views here,” he continued.
Vance was responding to a quote from McConnell, who offered a critical view of an emerging peace deal, which has been largely panned as favoring Russians too heavily.
“Putin has spent the entire year trying to play President Trump for a fool. If Administration officials are more concerned with appeasing Putin than securing real peace, then the President ought to find new advisors,” McConnell said in the statement on Friday.
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Thank you very much and God bless you,
Jim
It won't take long.
Gads!
The old geezer is falling down - and he wants the young guys to go to war.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky)
“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” - Oliver Cromwell
“Mitch–always eager to write blank checks to Biden’s foreign policy”
War can be profitable.
Vance gets it!
Vance-Rubio would make a powerful team in ‘28.
The Left knows this too which is why they are trying to split the GOP
Pit bull barks
Well, Russia does have $75 trillion in natural resources…and much of what the West needs….Ukraine has severe corruption, lies, and if you recall, attempts to destroy President Trump, Vindman brothers impeachment, democrats slush funds in Ukraine, and attempts to smear his name during past elections.
It is time for Youcraine to go away.
McConnell would know about appeasement. He’s been appeasing the political Left for many decades.
Hey, McConnell.
Europe has been violating the energy sanctions all along.
And the Congress hasn’t called them out on it.
Who’s been appeasing the Rooskies...?
Folks will slowly reach a realization that is very uncomfortable.
The Russians will have all the super magnets they want for the next 10 yrs. We will not. That means every weapon we use can’t be replaced until then. There will be faking, but it’s 10 yrs to get an alternate source.
It’s a very ugly situation and it’s why Ukraine can’t be supplied.
In a very quiet way, China has decided this.
...and, then, there is his “connected” Chinese “wife”.
So much corruption...so little time.
That is one of the dumbest takes on international affairs I have read in some time.
Do you really believe what you posted?
The long game is getting Russia, hopefully sans Putin, onside against their true existential enemy. The one that’s explicitly claiming back the vast territory seized by the Czars and never returned, despite Lenin’s and Stalin’s promises. The one character in this farce who’s really being played is Putin.
Do you realize the total dependence of modern weaponry on neodymium?
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