Trump’s VP Pick Fuels European Anxiety Over US Backing for Kyiv
- Vance has opposed all US military support for Ukraine
- Republicans’ victory would spell transactional foreign policy
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When an outraged Ukrainian lawmaker berated JD Vance at this year’s Munich Security Conference over the Republicans’ blocking of aid to his country, the US senator listened patiently. But Oleksiy Honcharenko couldn’t change his mind.
That task will now fall to European allies and Ukrainian politicians after former President Donald Trump picked Vance as his running mate in his election campaign, in a decisive break with the US foreign policy old guard.