JD Vance says US economic stake in Ukraine is best guarantee of its security
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Vice-president says best counter to Russian threat is to ‘give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine’

 said that the best way to protect Ukraine from another Russian invasion is to guarantee the US has a financial interest in Ukraine’s future.

“What is the actual plan here? You can’t just fund the war forever. The American people won’t stand for that,” Vance said. This interview aired the same day the White House reportedly  and days after Donald Trump clashed with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in the Oval Office.

“”, which Vance said he tried to defuse. He said that the doors were still open for negotiations.

“There was a lack of respect. There was a certain sense of entitlement,” Vance said about Zelenskyy. “They showed a clear unwillingness to discuss the peaceful settlement that President Trump has tried to bring to this situation.”

Before Friday’s meeting, a minerals deal was meant to establish a joint fund between the US and  that would receive revenues from the mining of rare earth metals and other precious minerals in Ukraine, as well as some oil and gas revenues.

Later in Monday’s interview, Vance doubled down on his criticism on European leaders over free speech and democracy. The vice-president claimed that the Biden administration promoted censorship.

“The ideas are going to destroy western civilization,” Vance said. “They’re going to destroy Europe, and they would destroy the United States of America if we allowed them to fester.”

He went on to repeat anti-immigrant rhetoric, claiming mass migration poses a major threat to Europe. By the end of the interview, the conversation had turned to anti-trans topics, just days after Trump signed an executive order barring transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.

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