Vance Gets His Chance To Admonish Zelensky

Vice President JD Vance was dismissing Ukraine long before he upended an Oval Office meeting on Friday by calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "disrespectful" and asking if he had ever thanked the US for its support.

- Associated Press

COLUMBUS, OHIO: Vice President JD Vance was dismissing Ukraine long before he upended an Oval Office meeting on Friday by calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "disrespectful" and asking if he had ever thanked the US for its support.

When Vance was a candidate for US Senate in Ohio in 2022, he said on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast that he thought it was ridiculous that the US was focused on the border between Ukraine and Russia. "I gotta be honest with you," he told the host, a Trump ally. "I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other."

"I think that there are a lot of democracies in the world," he told The Associated Press that March, shortly after Russia launched its invasion. "And every time that one of them gets into a conflict now, at the end, it can't be our concern."