The vice president was hit with backlash after sharing the update on attempts for a peace deal
Vice President JD Vance has been hit with backlash after he made a surprising claim about World Wars while discussing the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Vance shared details about Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s approach to peace talks when he sat down for a new interview with NBC’s Meet The Press, which wasreleased on Sunday (August 24), after Donald Trump met separately with both Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to try and bring an end to the war.
During the interview, Vance was asked why he felt Putin was ‘serious’ about reaching a peace deal, prompting him to reveal that the Russian leader has ‘conceded’ to a couple of factors that were previously in contention.
First, he explained: “They’ve recognized that they’re not going to be able to install a puppet regime in Kyiv, that was of course a major demand at the beginning.”
Vance praised Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine (Drew Hallowell/Getty Images)
A puppet regime, as per Merriam-Webster, is when a government is controlled by the government of another country.
Vance then continued: “And importantly, they’ve acknowledged that there is going to be some security guarantee to the territorial integrity of Ukraine. We’re making progress.”
As he shared this insight, Vance went on to express belief that should Russia be allowed to ‘keep’ any of the territory it seized in Ukraine, it wouldn’t send a negative message.
The interviewer asked: “Does it give China a green light to invade Taiwan?”
In response, Vance shared a confusing take on how previous World Wars have reached their conclusions.
He said: “This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.”
Vance quickly continued on with his argument, but listeners couldn’t help but point out that World War 11, which Vance specifically mentioned, didn’t actually end with a negotiation.
Instead, the war ended with Hitler taking his own life and the unconditional surrender of Germany, as well as the surrender of Japan after they were the target of two atomic bombs.
Vance’s claim prompted a lot of responses from viewers, with one writing: “JD Vance has absolutely no clue about the history of World War 2.”
Another described his remark as ‘completely wrong and shockingly naive’, while a third added: “Vance saying World War 2 ended in negotiations is one of the craziest things I’ve ever heard in geopolitics and that’s saying something.”
Following the meetings with Zelenskyy and Putin, Trump is now working on getting the two leaders in a room together.
UNILAD has reached out to the White House for comment on Vance’s remarks.
JD Vance reveals the moment it all went wrong during Trump and President Zelenskyy’s heated meeting
The vice president was involved in the heated meeting with President Trump and President Zelenskyy
Vice President JD Vance has detailed the moment it all went wrong during the heated exchange between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office last week.
President Trump invited Ukrainian president Zelenskyy to the White House last week (February 28) in the hope of discussing a peace deal that would see the end of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In a fiery conversation broadcast live across the world, the 47th POTUS accused Zelenskyy of ‘gambling with World War 3’, while Vance insisted that Zelenskyy was treating both Trump and the US with disrespect and persistently called on the Ukrainian to ‘thank’ the president.
“I think it’s disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media…You should be thanking the president for trying to bring an end to this conflict,” Vance added.
The vice president has since spoken out about the infamous Oval Office moment, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity: “I do think that there was just a certain sense of — there was a lack of respect. There was a certain sense of entitlement.”
Vance claimed he had hoped to have had the conversation with Zelenskyy in private, but that came to no avail.
He continued: “The president was like, ‘nope, actually, I don’t want to have it in private anymore. I want to have this actual conversation in public for the American people to see’.
“The president has set a very clear goal for his administration. He wants the killing to stop.
“And I think that it’s very important that President Zelensky and of course, President Putin, too, they’ve both got to come to the negotiating table. And that’s ultimately where things broke apart.
“I really don’t care what President Zelensky says about me or anybody else. But he showed a clear unwillingness to engage in the peace process that President Trump has said is the policy of the American people and of their president.”
Vance went on to say during the ‘Hannity’ segment that the war in Ukraine ‘cannot go on forever’.
JD Vance has given his take (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The VP added: “There aren’t enough Ukrainian lives, there isn’t enough American money, and there isn’t enough ammunition to fund this thing indefinitely.
“The only realistic pathway to bring this thing to a settlement is President Trump’s pathway. We encourage both President Zelenskyy and President Putin to follow that path.”
Vance’s latest comments come as Trump has paused all US military aid being sent to Ukraine to assist on the frontline.
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