Washington is “done with the funding” of Ukraine’s war against Russia, JD Vance, the US vice-president, has said, as Europe scrambles to build a united defence before in-person negotiations between Presidents Trump and Putin.
Speaking in an interview after an emergency summit with European and Ukrainian officials, co-hosted by David Lammy at Chevening, the foreign secretary’s mansion in Kent, Vance said Americans were fed up with paying towards the cost of the war.
“What we said to the Europeans is simply, first of all, this is in your neck of the woods. This is in your back door,” he told Fox News. “You guys have got to step up and take a bigger role in this thing. And if you care so much about this conflict, you should be willing to play a more direct and a more substantial way in funding this war yourself, I think the president and I certainly think that America, we’re done with the funding of the Ukraine war business.
JD VANCE ON UKRAINE: “Americans, I think, are SICK of continuing to send their money, their tax dollars”
DARN RIGHT!
“If the Europeans want to step up and actually buy the weapons from American producers, we're OK with that—but we're NOT going to fund it ourselves anymore” pic.twitter.com/xugcIUfoAt
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 10, 2025
