In an interview with Greta Van Susteren of Newsmax, Vice President JD Vance explained his opinion that Russia and Ukraine aren’t ready for peace and that it will take “a lot more work” to get there. Newsmax Wires reports:
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is raging on despite months of negotiation because neither side is willing to reach a peace agreement, Vice President JD Vance said in a Newsmax interview on Thursday.
“As much as energetic diplomacy from the president of the United States can get people to the one-yard line, eventually you have to have the two parties who are willing to cut a deal,” the vice president told Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren, host of “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.”
“And right now, for all of our work, and we’re going to keep on working at it, the Russians and the Ukrainians are just not at the point where they can make a deal,” he said.
However, Vance said he thinks a settlement is still possible, but it will take “a lot more work” to get to that point.
“I think there’s a fundamental misalignment of expectations, where the Russians tend to think that they’re doing better on the battlefield than they actually are,” he said.
And that has made it harder to reach an agreement in the past few months, Vance said, even though there has been progress.
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