Former Marine talks ending the struggle in Ukraine
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Vice President JD Vance on Thursday reportedly warned that the U.S. wouldn’t rule out robust sanctions and even potential navy motion towards Russia if President Vladimir Putin didn’t come to the negotiating desk on a deal that might assure peace for Ukraine.
In talking with The Wall Road Journal, which was the primary to report on Vance’s feedback, the vice chairman stated sending U.S. troops to Ukraine was “on the table” if Russia failed to barter in good religion.
Vance stated there are “financial instruments of leverage [and] there are, in fact, navy instruments of leverage” that the U.S. might use towards Putin.
“I think there is a deal that is going to come out of this that’s going to shock a lot of people,” Vance instructed The Journal.
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance visits Dachau Focus Camp Memorial Website in Dachau, Germany February 13, 2025. (REUTERS/Leah Millis)
Vance’s feedback got here a day earlier than the vice chairman is predicted to satisfy with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Munich. The discussions might be intently watched by European leaders to gauge the place President Trump stands on negotiating an finish to the Russia-Ukraine struggle, which is nearing three years.
President Trump had what he described as a “lengthy” telephone name with Putin on Wednesday, which included the Russian chief agreeing to “immediately” start negotiations over the struggle in Ukraine.
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Writing on his social media platform Fact Social, Trump stated the 2 leaders “agreed to work together, very closely.”
“We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now. I have asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and Ambassador and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, to lead the negotiations which, I feel strongly, will be successful.”
President Donald Trump (heart), Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (proper). (Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photos | Contributor/Getty Photos | Scott Olson/Getty Photos)
Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are scheduled to steer the U.S. delegation to the Munich Safety Convention the place the way forward for Ukraine would be the prime merchandise on the agenda.
Trump has been imprecise about his particular intentions — apart from suggesting {that a} deal will probably end in Ukraine being pressured to cede territory that Russia has seized because it annexed Crimea in 2014.
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“The Ukraine war has to end,” Trump instructed reporters Thursday. “Young people are being killed at levels that nobody’s seen since World War II. And it’s a ridiculous war.”
Each Trump and U.S. Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth dashed Ukraine’s hopes this week of turning into a part of NATO, which the alliance stated lower than a yr in the past was “irreversible,” or getting again its territory captured by Russia, which at the moment occupies shut to twenty%, together with Crimea.
United States Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth, left, walks with Britain’s Protection Secretary John Healey previous to a bilateral assembly on the sidelines of a NATO protection ministers assembly at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on Wednesday, Feb. 12. (Johanna Geron/Pool Picture by way of AP)
“I don’t see any way that a country in Russia’s position could allow … them to join NATO,” Trump stated Thursday. “I don’t see that happening.”
When requested what he thought Russia ought to give as much as attain a deal, he famous that talks haven’t but begun and that “maybe Russia will give up a lot, maybe they won’t.”
At NATO headquarters, Hegseth reiterated Thursday that “simply pointing out realism like the borders won’t be rolled back to what everybody would like them to be in 2014 is not a concession to Vladimir Putin.” He stated it is a recognition of realities on the bottom.
He added, although, that neither Russia nor Ukraine will “get everything that they want” and careworn that “any negotiation that’s had will be had with both.”
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Fox Information Digital has reached out to the White Home for a response to Vance’s feedback.
Fox Information Digital’s Emma Colton and The Related Press contributed to this report.
