{"id":33319,"date":"2025-02-14T11:58:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/vance-says-trump-wants-productive-russia-ukraine-negotiations-but-notes-range-of-options\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:58:21","slug":"vance-says-trump-wants-productive-russia-ukraine-negotiations-but-notes-range-of-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/vance-says-trump-wants-productive-russia-ukraine-negotiations-but-notes-range-of-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance says Trump wants productive Russia-Ukraine negotiations but notes \u2018range\u2019 of options"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice President JD Vance<\/a> on Thursday said President Donald Trump wanted productive negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, but noted that the U.S. had a “range of options” if President Vladimir Putin didn\u2019t come to the negotiating table on a deal that would guarantee peace for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

In speaking with The Wall Street Journal, which was the first to report on Vance\u2019s comments, the vice president said President Trump was willing to employ a broad range of options to negotiate a peace deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“If\u00a0you look at President Trump’s<\/a> approach to this, the range of options is extremely broad, and there are economic tools of leverage,”\u00a0Vance told The Journal. “There are, of course, military tools of leverage. There’s a whole host of things that we could do. But fundamentally, I think the President wants to have a productive negotiation, both with Putin and with Zelenskyy.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added: “I think there is a deal that is going to come out of this that\u2019s going to shock a lot of people.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018NO REASON\u2019 FOR NEW NUKES: TRUMP FLOATS DISARMAMENT TALKS WITH CHINA, RUSSIA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s comments came a day before the vice president is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> in Munich. The discussions will be closely watched by European leaders to gauge where President Trump stands on negotiating an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, which is nearing three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Trump had what he described as a “lengthy” phone call with Putin on Wednesday, which included the Russian leader agreeing to “immediately” begin negotiations over the war in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

RUSSIA CLAIMS TRUMP, PUTIN TALK BROUGHT WORLD FROM \u2018BRINK OF APOCALYPSE,\u2019 EU WARNS OF \u2018DIRTY TRICKS\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said the two leaders “agreed to work together, very closely.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling\u00a0President Zelenskyy,\u00a0of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now. I have asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and Ambassador and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, to lead the negotiations which, I feel strongly, will be successful.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are scheduled to lead the U.S. delegation to the Munich Security Conference where the future of Ukraine will be the top item on the agenda. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump has been vague about his specific intentions \u2014 other than suggesting that a deal will likely result in Ukraine being forced to cede territory that Russia has seized since it annexed Crimea in 2014.<\/p>\n

RUSSIA LAUNCHES FRESH DRONE ATTACK AGAINST UKRAINE SHORTLY AFTER TRUMP-PUTIN PHONE CALL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“The Ukraine war has to end,” Trump told reporters Thursday. “Young people are being killed at levels that nobody’s seen since World War II. And it’s a ridiculous war.”<\/p>\n

Both Trump and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dashed Ukraine’s hopes this week of becoming part of NATO, which the alliance said less than a year ago was “irreversible,” or getting back its territory captured by Russia, which currently occupies close to 20%, including Crimea.<\/p>\n

“I don’t see any way that a country in Russia’s position could allow … them to join NATO,” Trump said Thursday. “I don’t see that happening.”<\/p>\n

When asked what he thought Russia should give up to reach a deal, he noted that talks have not yet begun and that “maybe Russia will give up a lot, maybe they won’t.”<\/p>\n

At NATO headquarters, Hegseth reiterated Thursday that “simply pointing out realism like the borders won’t be rolled back to what everybody would like them to be in 2014 is not a concession to Vladimir Putin.” He said it’s a recognition of realities on the ground.<\/p>\n

He added, though, that neither Russia nor Ukraine will “get everything that they want” and stressed that “any negotiation that’s had will be had with both.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Emma Colton and The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said President Donald Trump wanted productive negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, but noted that the U.S. had a “range of options” if President Vladimir Putin didn\u2019t come to the negotiating table on a deal that would guarantee peace for Ukraine. In speaking with The Wall Street Journal, which was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}