Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy yesterday attacked the peace plan offered for Ukraine on Sept. 12 by Republican Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance, calling it “ridiculous.” Zelenskyy then toured the Scranton, Pennsylvania factory that produces HIMARS missiles, praising the workers’ output, but also acting as a de facto arm of the “Harris for President” pro-war campaign.
On Sept. 23, Donald Trump, Jr. denounced Zelenskyy for his comment, and questioned the idea that a foreign leader, stuffed with billions in U.S. funding, should interfere directly in U.S. elections, and attack the Republican Party’s candidates and their peace plan to end the war.
The background is this. In a Sept.12 interview with the “Shawn Ryan Show”, Vance presented his rough outline of former President Trump’s current peace plan for NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine: “I think what this looks like is, Trump sits down, he says to the Russians, the Ukrainians, the Europeans: You guys need to figure out, what does a peaceful settlement look like? And what it probably looks like is the current line of demarcation between Russia and Ukraine, that becomes like a demilitarized zone.” While the rest of Ukraine would remain a sovereign state, Russia would get a “guarantee of neutrality” from Ukraine.
Vance added, “Ukraine doesn’t join NATO. It doesn’t join some of these allied institutions.”
