Vance (age 40) is not a fan of Volodymyr (age 47)
- Just after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Vance, then a candidate for U.S. Senate, said: "I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another."
"We’re getting easily half a trillion dollars in the hole for the Ukraine conflict ... Why? So that one of the Zelensky’s ministers can buy a bigger yacht?" he said in an interview with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon last year.
“I admire the brave Ukrainians ... but let’s not mistake the courage of Ukrainian troops on the ground with the fact that they have the most corrupt leadership and government in Europe and maybe the most corrupt leadership anywhere in the world,” Vance said in a speech at the Heritage Foundation.
See ya later Volodymyr! You have just enough gas to get to the airport!In an April op-ed in the New York Times titled "The Math on Ukraine Doesn't Add Up," Vance argued that the U.S. could not possibly provide enough munitions to Ukraine to turn the tides of the war and called Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's goal of restoring the country to its 1991 boundaries "fantastical."
At the Munich Security Conference in February, Vance also said that focusing on Ukraine was distracting Washington from confronting other challenges such as China.
"There are a lot of bad guys all over the world. And I'm much more interested in some of the problems in East Asia right now than I am in Europe," Vance said.
