U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression, listing it among the Trump administration’s top achievements.

Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia, Vance recalled being confronted by a Ukrainian-American over his calls to halt funding for Ukraine.

“And this person got really agitated at me because I was saying we should stop funding the Ukraine war,” Vance said.

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    This administration is so dumb and impossible to like, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

    Even the MAGA base is getting alienated by them. This is a colossal achievement to make these below the curve morons realize who they really are.

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    Really? He wasn’t more proud of that time he lumbered through Greenland wilderness yelling “MY BOSS WANTS TO BUY THIS PLACE” in his best trust fund voice? He’s got to say “MY BOSS IS VERY IMPORTANT AND IF HE DOESN’T LIKE YOU, YOU’LL BE SO SORRY” to so many heads of state. But I guess he got on TV that time so he can watch it over and over again.

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    i thought these mfs were promising to stop the war. they support the aggressor instead. wow

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    Bro can you believe we have 2 more years of this shit at least?? I say at least cuz even if trump fails at trying to run for a 3rd term I have such little confidence in dems. I’ve heard Kamala might try to run again X_X

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      I said it before and I’ll say it again, no matter what Trump or the Republicans do when it’s time to go to the polls every single Republican voter will grind their teeth, pick up the marker, a vote for Trump and the Republicans because “Well at least he’s not a Democrat.” Then once the results are out Democrats will be shocked to see that they lost to the Republicans again.

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    Fuck off vance, go check in with your momma I hear she is selling your couch for a bag of Ajax cleaner to snort.

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    Just Dumb and the MAGA fucks continue to break the 1994 Budapest Agreement. If the USA requests you to get rid of your nuclear insurance policy, tell them to f-off.

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      they’re not really breaking Budapest memorandum (not that they wouldn’t break any treaty in a heartbeat) because it did not say the other signatories would have to defend Ukraine from anyone else. It’s still a bad precedent for nuclear disarmament of course but then again the Trump administration has done every fucking thing they can to make literally every country in the world want nuclear weapons now because they’ve completely broken the old order where countries had at least some faith in USA mostly upholding and abiding by international law and supporting their supposed allies.

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    Knowing that Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for permanent protection from the US, I can understand the “agitation”. I’d be pissed.

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      Quavering and faultering on this is what told the world the USA was done being a responsible adult citizen.

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        Or, you know, openly breaking international law from 1999 on. Which Putin has cited as a precedent for his own illegal war in Ukraine.

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      in exchange for permanent protection from the US

      The Budapest Memorandum did not contain such a security guarantee.

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          While it did not spell out permanent protection

          If a treaty does not spell out permanent protection, then it does not give permanent protection. That is not how treaties work. It is not a “valid interpretation” to pretend a treaty gives guarantees that it does not specify.

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            The guarantee is a permanent protection from their actions, not permanent protection from others action or a requirement for assistance. You are either purposely being obtuse here or just disingenuous.

            My guess is you are a Russian apologist.

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              So when you wrote “permanent protection from the US”, you meant that the US would so to say “protect Ukraine from the US”? Not that the US would protect Ukraine from e.g. Russia? That was a very unclear formulation!

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                Yes, that was the agreement that Russia, UK, and the US agreed to. That they would not as a country infringe on Ukraine’s sovereignty.

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                  I doubt the first poster who mentioned was talking about that. It’s a pretty common misconception about the Budapest memorandum.

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    Alternate headline: “Being a Bitch to Russia one of the Proudest Achievements of Trump “Administration”.”