What was said in Munich remained in Munich. The American vice-president, JD Vance, caused a psychological shock in Europe, on February 14, by addressing in a little manner leading to the participants of the Safety Conference. On Wednesday, May 7, he lent himself much more conciliatory and affable to a question-answer session on foreign policy, in Washington, during a meeting of this same organization. But on the merits, JD Vance defended the main orientations of the American administration, and in particular diplomatic investment in two major files: Ukraine and Iran.
The vice-president recognized, hollow, that the effort of the White House for a complete ceasefire between kyiv and Moscow struck a wall. The idea of a freezing of hostilities for thirty days, accepted by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is rejected by the Kremlin. “The Russians said:” A thirty-day ceasefire is not in our strategic interest “, noted JD Vance. So we tried to overcome the obsession with a thirty-day ceasefire and rather approach what a long-term settlement would look like. »»
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Source: Lemonde