Holidaying in the U.K., Vance spent Saturday at the country retreat of U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy, where he met Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defence Council, and Andriy Yermak,\u00a0the head of Zelenskyy\u2019s office. <\/p>\n
Did that swing Vance? If so, only up to a point. On Sunday, he struck a pretty traditional line on Fox News: \u201cWe\u2019re done with the funding of the Ukraine war business,\u201d he said. \u201cAmericans, I think, are sick of continuing to send their money, their tax dollars to this particular conflict. But if the Europeans want to step up and actually buy the weapons from American producers, we\u2019re OK with that, but we\u2019re not going to fund it ourselves anymore.\u201d <\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t exactly sound like the U.S. is more interested in providing post-war security guarantees. <\/p>\n
The attraction of being peacemakers, however, seems to be building traction in the administration. Vance later noted, at an air base in Britain on Wednesday, that Trump \u201csaid very simply that we are going to make it our mission as an administration to bring peace to Europe once again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Played by Putin<\/p>\n
Jan Techau, head of Germany for Eurasia Group, a think tank, also cautioned that Trump entered the meeting with the Europeans with different objectives from them. <\/p>\n
For Trump, the key is that he should not come out of the Alaska summit looking like a \u201closer.\u201d That implication \u2014 that he could be outsmarted by Putin \u2014 makes him simmer with anger on his Truth Social account. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holidaying in the U.K., Vance spent Saturday at the country retreat of U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy, where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[24605,11783,768,28,6178,6217,12495,5293,34,35,2000,46647,299,5187,1945,1824,601,1113,12337,332,9322,7705,2663,811,2824,1200,1201,657,15,49,1781,333,771,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-342210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-andriy-yermak","9":"tag-antonio-costa","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-buildings","12":"tag-conflict","13":"tag-david-lammy","14":"tag-development","15":"tag-diplomacy","16":"tag-emmanuel-macron","17":"tag-energy","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-eu-russia-relations","20":"tag-europe","21":"tag-european","22":"tag-friedrich-merz","23":"tag-germany","24":"tag-jd-vance","25":"tag-latvia","26":"tag-missions","27":"tag-russia","28":"tag-russian-politics","29":"tag-rustem-umerov","30":"tag-sanctions","31":"tag-security","32":"tag-tanks","33":"tag-tax","34":"tag-trade","35":"tag-ukraine","36":"tag-united-kingdom","37":"tag-united-states","38":"tag-viktor-orban","39":"tag-vladimir-putin","40":"tag-war","41":"tag-war-in-ukraine","42":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}