VANCE ON UKRAINE: TRUMP WILL ‘BRING THIS THING TO A RAPID CLOSE’: Former President Donald Trump’s selection of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to be his running mate foreshadows that bottomless U.S. aid to Ukraine is just months away from bottoming out. 

During his Trump-endorsed campaign for Senate in Ohio, Vance famously opined, “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another. He considers Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a puppet of the Biden administration and the war in Ukraine a lost cause, views also espoused by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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