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U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression, listing it among the Trump administration's top achievements.

Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia, Vance recalled being confronted by a Ukrainian-American over his calls to halt funding for Ukraine.

"And this person got really agitated at me because I was saying we should stop funding the Ukraine war," Vance said.

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[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So when you wrote "permanent protection from the US", you meant that the US would so to say "protect Ukraine from the US"? Not that the US would protect Ukraine from e.g. Russia? That was a very unclear formulation!

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, that was the agreement that Russia, UK, and the US agreed to. That they would not as a country infringe on Ukraine's sovereignty.

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt the first poster who mentioned was talking about that. It's a pretty common misconception about the Budapest memorandum.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Perhaps they are under the misconception that we are legally obligated to defend them. This is incorrect of course.

On a side note, the US did violate this agreement when Trump threatened to withdraw support unless Ukraine agreed to blackmail Biden. Why Trump is allowed to continue to harass Ukraine is yet another failure of Congress.