J. D. Vance speaks about the threat of nuclear war

"US Vice President J. D. Vance said that if the conflict in Ukraine drags on for another few years, it could lead to the use of nuclear weapons.

“If this drags on for another few years, millions of people could die and it could escalate into a nuclear war,” J. D. Vance said in an interview with blogger Charlie Kirk.

He said that the popular media often writes that if the fighting continues, “the Russians will lose, the Ukrainians will get their territory back, and everything will go back to the way it was before the conflict.” However, “that is not the reality we live in,” the US vice president said.

According to J. D. Vance, US President Donald Trump has instructed his team to do everything in their power to end the conflict and constantly return to the negotiating table to find a solution. Russia is offering its own terms for a deal, Ukraine is offering its own, “and the challenge of diplomacy is to try to bring these two sides together,” Vance said. “The biggest breakthrough is that we’ve gotten them both to talk about what it takes to end the conflict,” the vice president added. But he noted that he is more optimistic about a deal now than he was two weeks ago, and more optimistic two weeks ago than he was two months ago.

The White House said the day before that Trump was growing increasingly frustrated with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over the ongoing hostilities. The two leaders need to sit down at the negotiating table to end the conflict, White House spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said. Trump had previously questioned Putin’s willingness to end the conflict and threatened to impose new banking and secondary sanctions on Russia.

At the same time, he urged Zelensky to make peace, warning that otherwise he would lose the entire country in another three years of fighting.

According to Axios sources, the American president began to lose patience and privately admitted that the agreement had reached an impasse. In mid-April, Trump threatened to withdraw from the negotiation process if “either side finds it extremely difficult to end the conflict,” but expressed hope that this would not happen.”