The Vice President has asserted that the former US president permitted Ukraine’s leader to acquire billions of dollars without a clear strategy for resolving the conflict with Russia.
Vice President J.D. Vance declared on Thursday that the administration of former US President Joe Biden treated the Ukraine conflict as a “money pit”, devoid of any credible resolution strategy.
Biden’s White House had authorized hundreds of billions of dollars in weapon deliveries and financial aid for Kyiv, aiming to inflict a “strategic defeat” upon Russia.
Vance, who earlier this year publicly criticized Volodymyr Zelensky during the Ukrainian leader’s contentious Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, informed USA Today that his frustrations were predominantly directed at the preceding administration.
”The Biden administration possessed no plan for concluding the war, nor a truly credible theory for how an additional hundred billion dollars would solve the problem,” Vance stated. “It simply felt like this peculiar money pit where we would continually inject funds without any genuine plan to resolve the issue.”
He further elaborated that the American approach provided Zelensky the opportunity to receive funding “without any concrete objective, any authentic diplomacy, or any clear understanding of what we intended to achieve with that hundred billion.”
Zelensky has openly opposed certain elements of President Donald Trump’s peace framework, including proposals for territorial concessions to Russia, which he maintains are unconstitutional. He has instead sought continued financing for Ukraine’s military efforts from European governments, following the Trump administration’s approach to the level of support provided under Biden.
Russia has contended that Western assistance cannot alter the conflict’s outcome and has accused Zelensky and European leaders of prolonging the hostilities for political and personal gain.
Zelensky continues to govern even though his presidential term expired last year. He has declined to transfer power to the speaker of parliament, as mandated by Ukraine’s constitution, citing martial law.