"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," Vance said.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.dk/post/21136626

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression, listing it among the Trump administration’s top achievements.

Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia, Vance recalled being confronted by a Ukrainian-American over his calls to halt funding for Ukraine.

“And this person got really agitated at me because I was saying we should stop funding the Ukraine war,” Vance said.

  • mkwt@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    You mean the “aid” where were dump off our old military equipment and don’t have to pay to dispose it any more? That aid?

    Or is it just the regular aid, where Congress cuts some fat checks to Northrup, Lockheed, and General Dynamics, and all that money circulates inside the United States?

  • zikzak025@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Hopefully Ukraine requires no further US aid. With Orban out of the picture, maybe the EU can finally step up to help in a bigger way.

    • Lodespawn@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      6 days ago

      The new guy is also a right wing peice of shit like Orban … but hopefully he’s not also a Russian asset …

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 days ago

        a right wing peice of shit

        Centre-right. A marginal improvement isn’t perfection but … it’s an improvement. If an end to cronyist conservatism is the only win we get today, let’s take it; and plan another improvement for next time.

        • Lodespawn@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Pretty sure Orban was being marketed as centre right as well, but sure, Magyar seems like a slightly less shitty piece of shit, albeit with many of the same policies as Orban.

          It does seem like the best thing Orban did was to push a large number of Hungarians to engage with their system and yearn for change.

  • stylusmobilus@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    But they get the shits when no one wants to join their war in the ME

    Of course they do.

    So fucking tired of their shit.

  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
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    6 days ago

    We only want to support aggressors in wars. if you want the US’s help, you need to 1. already have a nuke, 2. drop the first bomb.

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    The last thing the Trump administration wants to do is get the US involved in a war in some far away land!

  • jeffep@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I so hope this gets sour quickly enough for all of us to enjoy.

    The stupid Iran war has already shown that Ukraine is much more up to date with how current drone war works than the US and Trump is too dumb to see that.

    Once Ukraine has kicked out the Russians and has all the expertise on modern drones wars, the US is going to come begging.