Sergey Kostianoi
Stand With Ukraine
July 16, 2024
JD Vance picked by trump for vice president. The Kremlin will open champagne again today about this 🥂
🔴 J.D. Vance – radical MAGA and America First. Not only did he oppose aid to Ukraine, but also actively sabotaged this process, until the end tried to steal the $60 billion allocation to Ukraine in April, then said that this aid package would be the last for Ukraine.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/18/jd-vance-ukraine-aid-00153201
J.D. Vance supports Ukraine giving up its territory to Russia. He is the author of the famous phrase – “All the manufacturing capacity of the United States would not be enough for Ukraine to win over Russia.” Basically, just like his boss. The worst version presented.
Trump chose the most pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian candidate. Europe needs to prepare for the worst case scenario.
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Europe reacts to J.D. Vance as Trump’s VP pick: ‘This is a disaster for Ukraine’
Some foreign leaders are now even more nervous about a potential second Trump administration.
July 15, 2024
“This is a disaster for Ukraine.” Those are the words of one senior EU official today as Europe reacted to Donald Trump’s choice of Ohio senator J.D. Vance as his running mate.
While Europe was already panicked about a second Trump presidency and its implications for U.S. foreign policy, the addition of Vance to the GOP ticket has raised further questions about a potential new administration’s commitment to Ukraine and the transatlantic alliance.
Vance has made his views on Ukraine clear. In 2022, he told Steve Bannon in an interview “I got to be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.” In February 2024, when Vance made his first appearance at the Munich Security Conference, he told POLITICO that the U.S. needed to reassess its support for Ukraine and skipped a meeting with the Ukraine delegation and other senators.
His rhetoric has toughened since, with the 39-year-old senator criticizing Europe’s dependence on the U.S. for military spending and blasting Germany in particular for failing to meet the NATO defense spending target of 2 percent of GDP.
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What Trump-Vance ticket means for Mitch McConnell’s Ukraine aid crusade
Ohio Republican Sen JD Vance has complained of ‘shockingly little accountability’ with US military aid to Ukraine
Published July 15, 2024
Former President Trump’s choice of Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his running mate in the November election could make Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s mission to shore up support for Ukraine in the Republican Party more difficult.
The Ohio senator has been a vocal critic of the various foreign aid packages, which included assistance for Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia.
“The problem in Ukraine … is that there’s no clear end point,” he previously remarked, echoing a complaint of other Republicans about the status of the conflict.
Vance has further questioned the continued aid to Ukraine over a lack of oversight, even introducing legislation to better monitor it.
“The United States has sent tens of billions worth of military aid to Ukraine with shockingly little accountability for where those resources have gone,” he said in a statement at the time.
TRUMP PICK JD VANCE CELEBRATED BY GOP: ‘OPPONENT OF ENDLESS WARS’
JD Vance’s selection as Trump’s running mate could pose a problem for McConnell’s crusade for Ukraine support. (Getty Images)
“For example, we know that over half the weapons subject to enhanced end-use monitoring we’ve sent have not been tracked according to DOD standards. This is totally unacceptable. My legislation would require the Biden administration to maintain much higher standards of tracking the weapons we send overseas. If they can’t maintain those standards, they lose their authority to send weapons in the first place,” he added.
TRUMP PICKS JD VANCE AS RUNNING MATE AS HE BECOMES GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE
Sen. JD Vance and wife Usha Chilukuri Vance are shown as he is nominated for vice president during the first day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
This past spring, the Ohio Republican voted against the $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific, which ultimately passed.
On the other hand, McConnell has made support for Ukraine his priority going forward. The Kentucky senator announced he would be stepping down as leader of the upper chamber’s Republicans in February, but he will remain in Congress.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has long been an opponent of Russian geopolitical machinations. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
He previously noted he planned to put “the main part of my focus in the coming years” on pushing back on Russia in Ukraine. He referred to the war as “a worldwide problem for democracies.”
In an interview last week, McConnell claimed to be seeing improvement in his party on the issue of supporting Ukraine and demonstrating leadership on the world stage.
“Reagan would turn over in his grave if he thought we were not willing to stand up for people fighting for their independence, particularly against the Russians,” he said.
Despite the clear foreign policy differences between McConnell and Vance, the Senate minority leader applauded Trump on his choice of vice presidential nominee on Monday.
“Senator JD Vance is a fierce advocate for the president’s policies and is the obvious pick for President Trump. He’ll make a strong case on the campaign trail on why we need to turn the page on the disastrous policies of the Biden administration,” reads a tweet from the Kentucky senator’s campaign account.
Trump hasn’t been entirely forthcoming about what he would do to address the war between Ukraine and Russia, often claiming he would quickly be able to end the conflict.
“If I’m president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours,” he once said.
“I got to be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.”
JD Vance.
Horrendous.
Imagine if a Republican said that about Israel. He’d be finished. In today’s GOP, when you say something as evil as that about Ukraine, it creates a career opening.
The GOP has had a Putin wing since 2014. It has grown exponentially. Trumpkov has ensured that there will be full continuity if he steps down.
His choice of Vance, whose sneering contempt and hatred for Ukraine matches his own, has put Ukraine in even greater peril.
A vote for Trump/Vance is a vote for genocide.
Does this mean that if someone finds that Trump is not pro-Putin enough, it would be in his interest to kill Trump to bring to power someone who is definitely pro-Kremlin like his vice-president? isn’t this a dangerous calculation with the empire of vice that is Putin’s Russia… ?
trump will always have a sword of Damocles hanging over his head…
Trump said he was coming back for revenge, he really has to screw everyone.
correction :
Trump said he was coming back for revenge, he’s really putting himself under the obligation of having to fuck everyone.
“he really has to screw everyone.”
But isn’t screwing everyone trumpkov’s MO (modus operandi)?
When the Democratic ticket changes, everything will change. Stay hopeful!
Still waiting to see a response from the trumputler-rimmers…
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov cheered Vance’s nomination, saying: “He’s in favor of ending the assistance that’s being provided and we can only welcome that because that’s what we need—to stop pumping Ukraine full of weapons and then the war will end”