Vance Tickles Putin with Talk of Ending US Support for Ukraine 

Only Vladimir Putin and his Russian junta of cutthroats would be pleased by any reduction of US help for Ukraine.

According to Ukrainian and other news media, Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday, April 14, that ending US funding for Ukraine’s war effort was a “key achievement” of the current administration. The Grand Old Party is not so grand with the vice-president supporting an end to Washington’s support for Ukraine as well as his public baseless jousting with the Pope. Ending US support for Ukraine opens the door for Russia to sweep across Europe up to the Atlantic.

The vice president told a Turning Point USA rally in Georgia on Tuesday that he still backed the decision to end nearly all new weapons deliveries for Kyiv, leaving Europe to pay for vital aid instead. Fortunately, Europe is aware of its historic mission and is standing up to the plate.

"I still believe that, obviously, and it's one of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration is we've told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can, but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine anymore,” he said.

Referencing a clash with a Ukrainian American over his push to withdraw funding for Ukraine, Vance offensively and jingoistically  added: “Being an American means caring about Americans first, and that’s the perspective we should be taking in his immigration policy.”

“We have told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can, but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine anymore,” Vance said.

He added that the US is “out of that business,” describing the decision as “a very good thing.”

According to Vance, the Ukrainian American told him: “You need to support my country.”

“I said, ‘Sir, with all due respect, if you’re an American, your country is the United States of America, not a place that you immigrated from,’” Vance said.

The vice-president failed to show an understanding of what it means to be a Ukrainian American (no hyphen). For generations, Ukrainians who emigrated to America from Ukraine planted their roots here that grew into tall trees that paid tribute to their heritage while, for instance, dying in numerous wars for America.

US policy toward Ukraine shifted after Trump’ return with his administration moving to scale back military and financial assistance to Kyiv. Washington halted new aid packages and signaled it would no longer play a leading role in supplying weapons to Ukraine, urging European allies to take on greater responsibility for supporting Kyiv.

The change marked a significant departure from previous US policy under Joe Biden, whose administration had provided tens of billions of dollars in military, financial, and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The current administration of President Trump has shown a perverted idea of its global responsibility, publicly shedding its historical mission of defending America from foreign enemies, absolving historical guilt, standing up to Russian threats and aggression, defending the captive nations of Russian enslavement, and aiding those peoples to regain their independence, statehood and freedom.

This abandonment and  betrayal by Trump, Vance and other GOP insiders will certainly not be forgotten on Election Day by American voters with ties to the captive nations.