{"id":2226,"date":"2024-09-12T21:49:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T21:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2024-09-13T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T09:51:30","slug":"vance-reveals-trumps-plan-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/vance-reveals-trumps-plan-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance reveals Trump\u2019s plan for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican vice presidential candidate has outlined what peace talks with Russia might look like<\/strong><\/p>\n

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has a concrete proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict, his running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, has claimed.<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly said he would stop the fighting “in 24 hours”<\/em> if elected, most recently at Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ candidate to succeed President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

To end the war, “you need somebody that first of all people are terrified of,”<\/em> Vance told former US Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Shawn Ryan, in a podcast interview<\/a>. “You need to be worried that if Donald Trump – or God forbid, Kamala Harris – says something, that they actually mean it. But you believe it with Donald Trump, you don’t believe that with Kamala Harris. That’s deterrence.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Asked about what a Trump peace proposal would look like, Vance outlined a scenario he considered probable. The current line of contact would become a demilitarized zone, “heavily fortified so Russia doesn’t invade again,”<\/em> he told Ryan.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine would get to keep its independence and sovereignty, but “Russia gets a guarantee of neutrality from Ukraine – it doesn’t join NATO”<\/em> or other similar institutions, Vance said. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s reconstruction would have to be funded primarily by Germany and EU countries, whom Vance accused of underwriting Kiev’s war effort.<\/p>\n

“I think that’s ultimately what this looks like,”<\/em> he said, because “they’re scared of him [Trump] in Russia. They are worried about him in Europe, because he actually means what he says.”<\/em><\/p>\n

According to Vance, Moscow, Kiev, and the EU all want the conflict to end, but the fighting continues because Biden is “asleep at the wheel”<\/em> and Harris “doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Their policy is ‘throw money at this problem, hope the Ukrainians are able to achieve a military victory’ that even the Ukrainians are saying ‘we can’t achieve’,”<\/em> while Trump’s position is to be both strong and smart and negotiate an end to this, Vance argued.<\/p>\n

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Later in the show, Vance said he was “sick of wasting American lives being the policeman of the world”<\/em> and called the current US policy toward Russia “stupid.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Vance has been on the record opposing further US funding of Ukraine’s war effort, accusing the White House of having “no viable plan”<\/em> for Kiev’s victory. In a New York Times op-ed<\/a> in April, he argued that winning would require more troops than Ukraine could possibly draft and more weapons than the US is able to produce.<\/p>\n

Russia has declared Ukrainian neutrality as one of its main objectives. Meanwhile, Kiev has ruled out any talks not based on Vladimir Zelensky’s ‘peace formula’, a list of maximalist demands that Moscow has ridiculed as detached from reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican vice presidential candidate has outlined what peace talks with Russia might look like Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has a concrete proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict, his running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, has claimed. Trump has repeatedly said he would stop the fighting “in 24 hours” if elected, most recently at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueskykentucky.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}