Originally published at Judgenap.com and reprinted with permission
Vice President JD Vance explained that the White House was done funding the war in Ukraine. He said President Donald Trump would allow Europe to buy American weapons for Ukraine.
“The president and I certainly think that America [is] done with the funding of the Ukraine war business,” the Vice President told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“We want to bring about a peaceful settlement to this thing. We want to stop the killing, but Americans, I think, are sick of continuing to send their money, their tax dollars, to this particular conflict.” He continued, “But if the Europeans want to step up and actually buy the weapons from American producers, we’re okay with that, but we’re not going to fund it ourselves anymore.”
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the alliance would continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs to continue to fight. NATO is “making sure that Ukraine has what it needs to stay in the fight,” he told Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.”
He made the statement after it was announced that Trump would meet with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. The summit was scheduled after Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff discussed the broad outlines of a deal.
That deal includes Ukraine withdrawing from the Donbas, Russia retaining control over the territory its forces control in southern Ukraine, limits on Ukrainian military, and an agreement from Kiev not to join NATO. The proposal has concessions from Moscow, as the Kremlin previously demanded all of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
Ukrainian President Zelensky responded to the proposal by rejecting the offer and refusing to cede any territory.
