Ouagadougou: To be honest, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another”… Likely future Vice President JD Vance (39) is a fierce opponent of helping Ukraine in the war against Russia.
In kyiv, this must have caused a few cold sweats: by designating Senator JD Vance to be his vice-president if he is elected in November, Donald Trump chose a fervent isolationist, who fiercely opposed aid to Ukraine.
‘To be honest, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another,’ the 39-year-old American conservative said in a podcast last April.
‘I find it ridiculous that we are focusing on this border in Ukraine,’ he added, while many Republicans have called for more resources to be allocated to fight illegal immigration at the Mexican border.
A former soldier and successful author, this formidable outspoken elected official from Ohio has constantly defended in the American Congress the causes dear to the former Republican president, such as the fight against immigration or economic prote
ctionism. under the credo of ‘America First’.
He notably distinguished himself as one of the fiercest opponents against new military aid of 60 billion dollars for Ukraine.
Although it was finally adopted in the spring, it remained blocked in the American Congress for months in the face of opposition from ‘Trumpist’ elected officials including JD Vance, supported behind the scenes by Donald Trump.
They argued that they refused to continue signing ‘blank checks’ to Ukraine for an endless war.
– ‘Not afraid’ –
A possible victory for Donald Trump in the presidential election on November 5 is worrying in Brussels and many European capitals.
It would pose great uncertainties over the sustainability of American financial and military support for Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion launched in February 2022.
Although he maintains vagueness about what he would do, the Republican candidate has nevertheless suggested that he would put an end to the conflict very quickly if he returned to the White House.
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or kyiv, this poses the risk of finding itself forced to negotiate with Moscow in an unfavorable position.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he does not fear a new Trump presidency.
‘I think if Donald Trump becomes president, we will work together. I’m not afraid,’ he said Monday. Mr. Zelensky was able to meet Republican elected officials on the sidelines of the NATO summit last week in Washington.
The shadow of Donald Trump, who in the past has described the Atlantic Alliance as an ‘obsolete’ organization, has loomed over the summit of the 75-year existence of the Western military alliance.
Asked on Tuesday about the consequences of a Trump presidency for Ukraine, the spokesperson for American diplomacy, Matthew Miller, hit the nail on the head.
But, he said, “what we see when it comes to Ukraine is that the American people strongly stand for continued support” for that country.
At the end of June, a few days before the NATO summit, Senator JD Vance attacked on the Fox News channel the depend
ence of Europeans on the “American welfare state”, a theme dear to Donald Trump.
Speaking before the Munich Security Conference last February, he indulged in a diatribe against Europeans considered too timid. ‘We don’t win wars with GDP, the euro or the dollar. We win wars with weapons, and the West does not make enough weapons,’ he said.
He said Russian President Vladimir Putin does not pose “an existential threat to Europe and, to the extent that he does, it would suggest that Europe needs to play a more aggressive role in its own security.”
Also to send the clear message that Europe is no longer the priority.
The United States must ‘focus more on East Asia’, in other words China, assured the senator for whom ‘this is the future of American foreign policy for the next 40 years, and Europe must realize this.
Source: Burkina Information Agency