JD Vance: European Leaders Sound Very Different on Ukraine War in Private

Breitbart: European leaders “puff up their chests” and say they back war for as long as it takes in public, but once there’s no journalist in earshot, they become realistic about needing to end the Ukraine war, U.S. Vice President JD Vance has said.

“I don’t care what the Europeans say in public” because it is so completely different in tone to what is said behind closed doors, Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on Monday evening. Emphasising the importance of getting to peace in Ukraine as soon as possible through the “path” offered by President Trump, Vance explained that while European leaders piled on warlike rhetoric promoting a total victory vision prioritising absolute defeat of Moscow, in private, they recognise peace must come soon.

Stating there simply aren’t enough Ukrainian lives nor Western money to sustain war forever, he said: “It’s useful to step back and ask ourselves, what is the actual plan here? You can’t just fund the war forever, the American people won’t stand for it… Our European friends… are doing a disservice to the Ukrainians because their own populations are saying they don’t want to fund the war indefinitely.”

On the disconnect between the public rhetoric and the real talk away from the cameras, Vance continued: “You have Zelensky, he goes to Europe, and a lot of our European friends puff him up, and they say ‘You’re a freedom fighter, you need to keep fighting forever’… when you talk to leaders in private, whether they are Ukrainian or European when you talk to people in private they will tell you this cannot go on forever.” more