Vance says US has economic and military ‘tools of leverage’ if Russia doesn’t push for peace with Ukraine, WSJ reports
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Vance says US has economic and military ‘tools of leverage’ if Russia doesn’t push for peace with Ukraine, WSJ reports
Posted by UUtch
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tfw Trump has a heart attack and Vance puts boots on the ground in Russia
Yeah like “giving Russia everything it wants and claiming victory for stopping the war.”
Schmuck.
if the biden admin ever uttered the phrase “military tools of leverage” wrt russia it would have triggered an absolutely hysterical frenzy about world war 3
I feel like they were planning on playing good-cop-bad-cop with Hegseth, before settling on a deal that sells out Ukraine, but Hegseth was too stupid to not give away the game so quickly.
Obviously trump wants a peace deal asap so he can claim he solved the war. The path to an actual peace plan is very narrow, and trump will punish whoever is responsible for not signing. If he thinks Zelenskyy foiled the peace, he will withhold aid. If he thinks putin foiled the peace, he will increase it.
The problem with this is that it’s going to be basically impossible for Ukraine to accept whatever humiliating deal Trump cuts behind their backs, so they’re almost guaranteed to be blamed as the obstacles to peace for rejecting it, and not Russia. In other words, this is tough language from people who feel safe there is almost zero percent chance they’ll ever have to back it up—by design.