Vance fires back at Bidens criticism, calls his foreign policy a total disaster

Vice President JD Vance fired back at Joe Biden’s new criticism of the infamous Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, dismissing the former commander-in-chief’s foreign policy as a “total disaster.”“I think it’s rich for Joe Biden to comment on anything that we’re doing when it comes to Russia and Ukraine,” Vance on Thursday told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum on “The Story.” “Under Biden’s administration, Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine… I wish Joe Biden the best.I don’t really care what he has to say about American foreign policy because so much of what he actually did was a total disaster.”In an interview with the BBC earlier this week — his first since leaving office in January — Biden called the President Donald Trump-Vance meeting with Zelensky “beneath America.”In addition to addressing Biden’s criticism, Vance reaffirmed the Trump administration’s support for Ukrainian sovereignty but stood by earlier comments suggesting the U.S.

may scale back its role as lead negotiator in peace talks.“We obviously want Ukraine to remain a sovereign country,” he said.“We knew that the Russians’ first offer would be too much.

We knew that they would ask for more than was reasonable to give.That’s how negotiations often work.

I’m not bothered by that.”“What would bother me is if we conclude that the Russians are not engaging in the negotiation in good faith.And if that happens, yeah, we’re [going to] walk away,” said Vance.Despite a recent rejection of a ceasefire proposal by Russia, Vance struck a cautiously optimistic tone about the direction of peace talks.“I actually think it’s progress that they’re even talking,” he said.

“We’re putting concrete peace plans on the table.”Vance also addressed developments in global trade, touting the administration’s first formal tariff agreement reached with the U.K.Earlier this year, the Trump administ...