President Trump is looking forward to a fundamentally productive negotiation with Russia’s Putin and Ukraine’s Zelensky, Vice President JD Vance has said, in comments mischaracterised by the Wall Street Journal as a threat of war.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance is speaking at the Munich Security Conference — taking place just one day after what is said to have been a terror attack in the city — and meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal before these engagements, Vance communicated President Donald Trump’s determination to make a peace deal in Ukraine and the incentives on the table for Russia to cooperate.
The WSJ appears to have seriously mischaracterised the conversation as one fundamentally warlike in tone, but this was quickly dispelled on Friday morning as Vance’s team published transcripts from the actual interview demonstrating Trump’s position that while walking into a negotiation nobody would take options away from the President, peace is the priority.
