BY LAUREN SFORZA 12/10/23
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said Sunday that the United States needs to accept that Ukraine will likely need to “cede some territory” to Russia to end the fighting.
Vance told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” that he is opposed to sending more aid to Ukraine because he does not believe the country will ever be able to overpower Russia. He questioned why sending billions in aid to Ukraine is going to help the country at this point in its war against Russia, considering previous aid has yet to end the war.
“What’s in America’s best interest is to accept Ukraine is going to have to cede some territory to the Russians, and we need to bring this war to a close,” Vance said. “But when I think about the great human tragedy here, hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans innocent have been killed in this conflict. The thing that’s in our interest and in theirs is to stop the killing.”
Lawmakers have been at odds over a White House supplemental funding request that included additional aid to Israel and Ukraine. Many Republicans have become opposed to sending more assistance to Ukraine and have demanded that increased border security measures be included in the funding request.
Senate Republicans blocked a measure to provide aid to Ukraine and Israel last week due to a lack of border provisions in the bill. The $111 billion emergency supplemental package requested by President Biden also included aid for the Indo-Pacific region and funding for humanitarian aid in Gaza.
The Biden administration warned earlier this month that the U.S. will run out of money for Ukraine without congressional action by the end of the year.https://cdn.amspbs.com/load-cookie.html?source=amp&bidders=appnexus%2Ctriplelift%2Cix%2Crubicon%2Cyahoossp&args=account%3A99991118#amp=1
Vance argued Sunday that no one believed Ukraine was going to win the war, explaining that the main focus should be bringing an end to the fighting and killing in the region.
“But on the Ukraine question in particular, everybody knows, everybody with a brain in their head, Jake, knows this was always going to end in negotiation,” Vance said. “The idea that Ukraine was going to throw Russia back to the 1991 border was preposterous; nobody actually believed it.”
“So what we’re saying to the president and really to the entire world is you need to articulate what the ambition is,” he said. “What is $61 billion going to accomplish that $100 billion hasn’t?”
Dan Rice; president of American University of Kyiv, on LinkedIn:
“Some Senate Republicans arguing Ukraine needs to cede some land to gain peace. Ukrainians do not believe this is strategy. Ukraine needs the right offensive weapons and air power, in sufficient quantity to take back ‘91 borders.
The dilemma will be when Congress cuts off aid to stop Ukraine from fighting.
The alternative is to immediately flood Ukraine with the Himars cluster rockets the Ukraine has been requesting for 18 months.
Let Ukraine win a war of attrition.
These Himars rockets cost thr taxpayers 0 and will destroy the Russia lines as deep as 100 miles.
As Churchill said of Hitler “you cannot negotiate with a Tiger, when your head is in his mouth!”
Putin has negotiated dozens of cease fires. He uses them to rest, regroup, then attack again and violate whatever he signed.”
Feb 21, 2022
“JD Vance, a Republican running for US Senate in Ohio, said he’s not particularly interested in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
“I gotta be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another,” Vance said on an episode of Steve Bannon’s War Room.”
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Wapo Feb 22, 2022
“One of J.D. Vance’s favorite lines about Russian troops massing around Ukraine is this formulation, which he evidently thinks is dazzlingly clever: We should care far more about our own border than that of Ukraine!”
But now JD is no longer indifferent! He Does care about Ukraine! But only to the extent that, like his idol Trumpkov, he wants to reward putler’s horde of marauding savages with free land!
So JD, if your wife was gang-raped and left for dead by degenerates in front of you, who then took a shit all over your lovely living room, would you want to reward them with your land as well?
It’s mind boggling how some can be so obtuse.
A deal of 120,000 km2?
Okay JD.
Ohio State will be a great fit for the Ukrainians. We pack our bags and arrive. Thank you to the old “renters” of Ohio for leaving the keys under the doormat and folding the laundry on the beds.
It’s really nice.
Nothing that Vance says makes any sort of sense. It’s obvious that he is desperately trying to justify ending military aid to a brave, democratic, and desperate nation. The question is, why? Concurrently, he doesn’t mention that such a move will endanger our security on this planet and that of our friends and allies too. Is he ignoring this danger, or is he too dense to see it? Or, is he being paid by the russian mafia for saying such things and acting on their behalf?
One thing is crystal clear; politicians such as Vance pose a grave danger to our nation.