United States Vice President JD Vance has said that his country was spending a “crazy” amount of money on the Ukraine war under the Joe Biden administration without any thought to diplomacy. Donald Trump, shortly after taking charge, restored bilateral diplomatic relations with Moscow, which were frozen under the Biden administration after the initiation of conflict in Ukraine in 2022. He openly criticised the former regime for sending too much military aid to Ukraine.
Trump has not stopped the aid flow to Ukraine, but also demanded payback for whatever Washington supplied to Kyiv and also forced Ukrainian President Zelensky to come to the table for peace negotiations.
It's evident that Trump does not consider Zelensky to be a publicly elected candidate to run the country and has often called him an “autocrat” and “dictator” without elections.
Vance, during his recent interview, said, “What happened with the Biden administration, man, it's crazy. They were spending so much money all over the world; they weren't engaged in diplomacy at all.”
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“They sent $300 billion to Ukraine, for example, and you never had the president of the United States trying to force a diplomatic settlement,” he said. The US vice president described the conflict as “vicious.”
“The Russia-Ukraine thing is the most vicious thing,” Vance said, adding that he’s pleased that Washington is trying to bring about a “settlement.”
The present US government has engaged Russia in several top-level negotiations in recent months. The diplomatic push has also led Kyiv and Moscow to restart direct negotiations for the first time since 2022, when Ukraine unilaterally pulled out from the first Istanbul talks.
Apart from curtailing Ukraine-related spending, the current US administration has cut down all foreign aid to trim the bloated federal budget. This “America first” switch is part of Trump’s pivot away from a “decades-old approach to foreign policy,” Vance said last month.
“The era of uncontested US dominance is over,” he said, promising that Washington will be turning away from “open-ended conflicts.”
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