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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    6 hours ago

    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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        5 hours ago

        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.