{"id":1025,"date":"2024-08-08T03:11:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T21:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/vance-refused-to-speak-to-ukrainians-wapo\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T04:55:28","slug":"vance-refused-to-speak-to-ukrainians-wapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/vance-refused-to-speak-to-ukrainians-wapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance refused to speak to Ukrainians \u2013 WaPo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Republican VP candidate would not take Kiev\u2019s calls about F-16s, according to texts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, whom Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump picked as his running mate, refused to take calls from Ukraine about F-16 deliveries, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The claim was based on text messages Vance has exchanged with Charles Johnson, described by the Post as a blogger&nbsp;<em>\u201cwho has zealously promoted right-wing conspiracy theories\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;as well as a federal informant. Johnson provided some of those messages to the Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cDude I won\u2019t even take calls from Ukraine,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Vance messaged Johnson last October.&nbsp;<em>\u201cTwo very senior guys reached out to me. The head of their intel. The head of the Air Force. Bitching about F16s.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another message, which the Post did not quote, allegedly ridiculed&nbsp;<em>\u201cthe mental state of a pro-Ukraine activist,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;while another suggested that the US intelligence community was engineering media support for Ukraine by telling Johnson the spies should&nbsp;<em>\u201cup the doses of Xanax among the rank and file.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xanax is a tranquilizer usually prescribed for panic and anxiety disorders.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/602263-us-arms-manufacturers-ukraine\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Post has presented the messages as proof that Vance&nbsp;<em>\u201cgravitates to people on the political fringe\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;and validation of the Democrats\u2019 branding of Trump\u2019s running mate as&nbsp;<em>\u201cweird.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vance\u2019s spokesman William Martin told the Post that the senator was never close with Johnson and that the two don\u2019t share the same politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cChuck Johnson spam texted JD Vance,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Martin said.&nbsp;<em>\u201cJD usually ignored him, but occasionally responded to push back against things he said.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 40-year-old freshman senator, tapped last month to be Trump\u2019s vice-presidential candidate, has long been a critic of the current administration\u2019s limitless support for Ukraine. He voted against the $61 billion aid bill to Kiev that was eventually\u00a0rammed through\u00a0Congress in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also wrote a New York Times op-ed\u00a0arguing\u00a0that Ukraine\u2019s problem was not political, but mathematical: it needed more men than it could draft and more equipment than the US and its allies could provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US Congress has approved\u00a0almost $175 billion\u00a0in aid to Ukraine since the conflict with Russia began in 2022. Ukraine has received an estimated $70 billion worth of cash, weapons, equipment and ammunition, while the rest of the money went to the Pentagon, US weapons manufacturers, and other programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican VP candidate J.D. 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