Vance's suspicious role in Trump's attack on Zelenski

Donald Trump Vice President Jay Di Vance pioneered the attack on his Volodimir Zelenski In the Oval Office, with international media commenting on his role and trying to explain why he was « royal of the king ».

The Bbc He notes that he did not hold the attitude of some of his predecessors who were moving as « a self -restrained political replacement », but on the contrary it was the one who took the reins to the attack on the Ukrainian president. In fact, the British media uses the term « Attack Dog », likening it to the dog in front of the attack.

The meeting was cordial until Vance took the floor to praise Trump about the pursuit, as he said, a diplomatic solution in the Ukraine -Russia War.

« What kind of diplomacy are you talking about, Jay Di? » Asked Zelenski, who had criticized direct talks between Washington and Moscow. « What do you mean? » He asked.

« I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that is going to end the destruction of your country, » Vance replied, shaking the surprised Ukrainian president.

« Mr President, with all respect, I think it is disrespectful to come to the Oval Office to try to condemn this in front of the US media, » Jay Di Vance added.

Trump's vice president also accused Zelenski of making a campaign on behalf of the Democrats during the 2024 presidential election.

The Ukrainian leader visited a ammunition plant in the critical state of Pennsylvania last September and met with Trump's opponent, Kamala Harris, at the White House.

Republicans celebrate after Trump's fight with Zelensky

Vance's attack on Zelenski was widely supported by the Republicans.

« I was very proud that Jay Di Vanz defended our country, » said South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham, a long -standing Ukrainian advocate and « hawk » of foreign policy, according to the BBC. Indeed, he suggested that Zelenski resign.

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville referred to Zelenski as « this Ukrainian weasel ».

MP Mike Lowler from New York was more measured, saying that the meeting was « a missed opportunity for both the United States and Ukraine ».

Abnormal attitude

Vance's remarkable attack on a head of state who visited the country is not common for a US vice president, the British media notes.

Their job is often – but not always – to help the president to be elected and then sit quietly by their boss. Be a loyal lieutenant who represents the president on trips abroad – to be ready, a breath away, as they say, from the presidency.

The difference with Trump's first vice president, much milder Mike Pence, could not be greater.

The BBC notes that Vance usually expresses the rationale behind Trump's instinctual positions and has long been openly cautious about US aid to Ukraine.

When he was a candidate for the Senate of Ohio in 2022, Vance said in a podcast: « I have to be honest with you. I don't really care what will happen to Ukraine in one way or another. « 

As the BBC typically writes, the current vice president mocked Trump as an idiot eight years ago, before his political development that culminated in becoming the successor of the US president's Make America Great Again.

Despite Vance's popularity among conservative voters, Trump recently said in an interview with Fox News that it was « too early » to say if the vice president would be the next series to claim the presidency in 2028.

Undeterred, Vance seems to develop a political rook for Trump, moving even further than the president in his open criticism of the opponents of the US government.

Many of the victims of Vance's verbal attacks are allies of the US.

He started these attacks by the Munich Conference on Security last month, a usual visit to a US Vice President. Kamala Harris often had memorable lectures there, the BBC notes.

But Vance used the conference to launch a fierce attack on the situation of European democracy, accusing the leaders of Epirus of censoring freedom of speech and do not control immigration.

« If you are running fearing your voters themselves, there is nothing that America can do for you, » he said.

The participants were amazed and terrified by his attitude.

This was not the usual – and more widely accepted – argument that Europe should pay more for its defense and security.

Jay Di Vance at the Munich Conference.

Jay Di Vance is supposed to be an indifferent vice president, writes the Guardian.

However, his leading role in Friday's « explosion » between Donald Trump and Volodimir Zelenski may mark the moment the post -war alliance between Europe and America finally collapsed, as the Guardian said in his analysis.

This was Vance's second major intervention this month. His Eurosophilic worldview came to the forefront of Munich, where he accused shocked European leaders of suffering freedom of speech, telling them that « if you are running out of fear of your own voters, there is nothing that America can do for you ».

Vance eventually found his opportunity to confront. The US Vice -President silently sets up a foreign policy team with a strongly skeptical view of the value of Kiev as a future ally. European officials expressed their support for Zelenski, saying that the Trump team's behavior in the Oval Office indicates that the United States is really choosing Putin's side.

There is something in Washington that many understand, but few say: that the Trump government was looking for a reason to destroy its relations with Ukraine and that the messages that followed after the Oval Office seemed strangely coordinated and predetermined.

« It was an accident designed, » said Sam Green, a professor of Russian policy at King's College, London. « The quiet debate from Munich was to prepare Ukraine for a fall. If a real agreement was impossible, someone had to take responsibility for it and would probably be the Ukrainians, « he said.

« It was a comprehensive ideological attack – a sign that the US under Trump not only moves away from Europe, shifting the attention of their safety in China, but also seeking to promote their own Trump populism on the European continent, » the BBC writes.

Vance then ate with the leader of the far -right AfD, while engaging in social media quarrels, as with historian Naal Ferguson, defending his attitude at the conference.

The US Vice President then even put them with the UK Prime Minister, Sir Kir Starmer in the Oval Office.

From nowhere, as the BBC notes, he told Starmer that « there have been violations of freedom of speech that actually affect not only the British – of course what the British in their country do is their own issue – but they also affect American technology companies and, by the way. »

Various questions arise. Was Vasses' attack on Zelenski premeditated, as some diplomats believe?

White house sources told US newspapers that it was not.

Does Vance's new role emerge at the behest of Trump, who shares the load with Elon Musk, to punish the president's opponents?

Or does Vance operate on his own to build the basis of a election campaign in three years, when Trump can't be a candidate again?

Whatever the answers to these questions, Vance emerges more than Trump's number two, the BBC concludes.