Lol great description. Great discernment of the interaction. It seems many on ET can't see what happened. You did ...kudos to you!
I noticed that too. He was saying Putin broke the Minsk agreement and JD wasn't exactly ready for that or, just pivoted to the person, ad hominem, as that was the direction Zelenski was going, so Vance just went there with fists. Every single YouTuber has a hot take on all this. I thought this one was pretty good. It's the first time I've heard her report. In this report, at 5:22 there are people (in the comments) who have caught Zelenski calling Vance a bad name in Ukranian under his breath, right before Vance accused him of conducting propaganda tours for dignitaries that give a false picture of the status quo in Ukraine. 5:22 This girl seems to see the big picture well. Nice commentary on a professional mic, and good editing.
US needs to leave NATO because its leaders have been duplicitous. Talking about peace at the same time escalating the Ukraine war. NATO does not even pay for their fair share. We still have NATO countries below the 2% threshold on defense spending. They are putting the US at risk of direct war with Russia at the same time, the cowards all hiding behind the back of the US? And these are our so called allies? I have urged President Donald Trump to start withdrawing US troops from countries bordering Ukraine. A strong message needs to be sent to Macron, Starmer and Scholz that if you get into a direct war with Russia, you will be fighting on your own without US troops to back you up. Either you want peace or war. The Europeans want war but, expect US taxpayers to foot the bill and US troops to die for their war. That is totally, unacceptable. Let these warmongers send in their own troops to die in Ukraine and let them pay for it! Every last cent of it!
Appeasing dictators never works. Giving in to Putin on Ukraine will merely embolden him and lead to an attack on other eastern European countries as Putin violently enacts his vision to reunite the Soviet empire. Naturally this will lead to WW3, but Trump is blind to reality because he likes to patronize dictators across the face of the earth. Putin is ready to carve up the world. Trump just handed him the knife. When Trump, fuming, threatened Zelenskyy with the potential for World War III, he may have been drawing a more accurate historical parallel than he realized. https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2025/03/02/opinion-putin-is-ready-carve-up/
Excellent press conference with Trump and Vance standing up for America. Biden and Obama would just have allowed him to come in and grab more money with nothing in return. This guy is really something else.