{"id":651663,"date":"2025-02-14T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=651663"},"modified":"2025-02-14T12:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:47:19","slug":"vance-wields-threat-of-sanctions-military-action-to-push-putin-into-ukraine-deal-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=651663","title":{"rendered":"Vance Wields Threat of Sanctions, Military Action to Push Putin Into Ukraine Deal &#8211; WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>UPDATE &#8212; the TRUMP administration says: <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">This is pure fake news. Compare the transcript of JDVance<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">&#8216;s conversation with WSJ to the headline being run here. The Vice President didn\u2019t make any threats. He simply stated the fact that no one is going to take options away from President Trump as these negotiations begin.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wsmartin218\/status\/1890384085027103120\">https:\/\/x.com\/wsmartin218\/status\/1890384085027103120<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Original<\/h4>\n<h4>In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the vice president says Ukraine must have \u2018sovereign independence\u2019<\/h4>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the U.S. would hit Moscow with sanctions and potentially military action if Russian President Vladimir Putin won\u2019t agree to a peace deal with Ukraine that guarantees Kyiv\u2019s long-term independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are economic tools of leverage, there are of course military tools of leverage\u201d the U.S. could use against Putin, Vance said. \u201cThere\u2019s a whole host of things that we could do. But fundamentally, I think the president wants to have a productive negotiation, both with Putin and with Zelensky.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/M48gh#selection-5943.0-5943.299\">https:\/\/archive.is\/M48gh#selection-5943.0-5943.299<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>AND<\/h3>\n<h4>Trump announces surprise summit with Putin \u2014 in Saudi Arabia. &#8211; New York Times<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/I5kiD#selection-4559.0-4559.69\">https:\/\/archive.is\/I5kiD#selection-4559.0-4559.69<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>While this certainly sounds like a &#8220;my way or the highway&#8221; bullying style negotiation tactic, it could also be a planned &#8220;good cop bad cop&#8221; routine.\u00a0 Russia has already converted to a war time economy and continues to ramp production for a potential war with NATO as well as continuing to train a +1M man reserve force in anticipation of NATO attack. In addition, Putin still classifies the Ukrainian situation as a &#8220;Special Military Operation&#8221; and has not yet declared war (thus reserving it&#8217;s war resources for the future). Nevertheless, Trump is a master negotiator and testing the waters is a technique &#8212; his skills will be on full display as this proceeds.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE &#8212; the TRUMP administration says: This is pure fake news. Compare the transcript of JDVance&#8216;s conversation with WSJ to the headline being run here. The Vice President didn\u2019t make any threats. He simply stated the fact that no one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=651663\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651663"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651683,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651663\/revisions\/651683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}