From: CNBC by Holly Ellyatt@HOLLYELLYATT
KEY POINTS
- Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s decision to pick Sen. JD Vance as his vice presidential running mate will have sent chills down spines in Kyiv on Tuesday morning.
- Ohio Republican Vance is a staunch proponent of Trump’s “America First” policy, and is ambivalent over U.S. intervention in foreign affairs.
- He has strongly opposed more aid for Ukraine and has suggested Kyiv be prepared to cede territory to Russia in order to achieve peace.
Gaelen Morse | Reuters
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s pick of Sen. JD Vance as his vice presidential running mate will have sent chills down spines in Kyiv on Tuesday morning.
Ohio Republican Vance is a staunch proponent of Trump’s “America First” policy vision and is generally ambivalent over U.S. intervention in foreign affairs. He has also strongly opposed more aid for Ukraine.
To add to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s concerns as he contemplates the likelihood of another Trump presidency, Vance has argued that the U.S. should encourage Ukraine to strike a peace deal with Russia, and that Kyiv should be prepared to cede land to its invader.
“It ends the way nearly every single war has ever ended: when people negotiate and each side gives up something that it doesn’t want to give up,” Vance told reporters in December, adding, “no one can explain to me how this ends without some territorial concessions relative to the 1991 boundaries.”
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