Donald Trump’s flailing war on Iran has forced his vice president to go hat in hand to a world leader he brutally ambushed in an Oval Office showdown last year.
JD Vance has led the charge among Trump administration officials to cut or even end U.S. military aide for Ukraine as it fights to defend itself against Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
But the Financial Times reports that Vance had to plead with President Volodymyr Zelensky for Ukraine to stop drone attacks on oil shipping vessels in the Black Sea. At the time of the call on July 31, the White House was panicking that those strikes would send gas prices even higher after Trump’s Middle Eastern conflict upended the world energy market.
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