Vice President JD Vance described the “real breakdown” between US-Ukraine relations on Monday as being Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s “clear unwillingness to engage in the peace process.”
Nevertheless, the vice chairman instructed Fox Information host Sean Hannity that he expects Zelensky to “get there eventually.”
“I really don’t care what President Zelensky says about me or anybody else,” Vance instructed the Fox Information host. “But he showed a clear unwillingness to engage in the peace process that President Trump has said is the policy of the American people and of their president.”
“That’s the real breakdown.”
Vance acknowledged that it was his comment about participating in “diplomacy” with Russian President Vladimir Putin that “set Zelensky off” throughout the heated Oval Workplace assembly Friday.
The vice chairman insisted the tense assembly was anticipated to be a “rah rah moment” for Washington and Kyiv, and though it “went off the rails,” President Trump continues to be keen to interact with the Ukrainian facet.
“When they’re willing to talk peace I think President Trump will be the first person to pick up the phone,” Vance mentioned.
The vice chairman additionally took subject with the best way European leaders have been speaking up Zelensky, arguing that they’re really doing the Ukrainians a “disservice.”
“I think our European friends, frankly, are really doing a disservice to the Ukrainians because their own populations are saying, ‘We’re not going to fund this war indefinitely,’” Vance argued.
“Zelensky, he goes to Europe and a lot of our European friends puff him up, They say, you know, ‘You’re a freedom fighter. You need to keep fighting forever.’ Well, fighting forever with what? With whose money? With whose ammunition? and with whose lives? The president is actually taking a much more realistic perspective and saying, ‘This can’t go on forever. We can’t fund this thing forever. The Ukrainians can’t fight forever. So let’s bring this thing to a peaceful settlement,’” he added.
Vance additional instructed that behind closed doorways, European leaders have a a lot completely different view of the three-year-long battle.
“When you talk to leaders in private, whether they’re Ukrainian or European, when you talk to people in private, they will tell you this cannot go on forever,” he mentioned. “There aren’t enough Ukrainian lives, there isn’t enough American money, and there isn’t enough ammunition to fund this thing indefinitely.”
“The only realistic pathway to bring this thing to a settlement is President Trump’s pathway. We encourage both President Zelensky and President Putin to follow that path.”
The Trump administration on Monday moved to pause army help to Ukraine within the aftermath of the disastrous Trump-Zelensky assembly, and the Ukrainian president’s continued insistence that the top of the battle continues to be “very, very far away.”
