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.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    I want you to limit the harm caused by the US.

    You are laser focused on Palestine, but look beyond that, would Kamela have kidnapped, Venezuela’s president, would she have blockaded Cuba, would she have attacked Iran, alienated NATO and other allies, stopped helping Ukraine?

    There is more going on here than Palestine.

    • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      She certainly talked about attacking Iran and was praising the biggest war criminal of the last two decades, Dick Cheney. I don’t think she would have been as bad globally, but that’s not how it works. If you can’t say no to genocide then you don’t get to claim to be the victim.