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Will Vance remark about US bailing on Ukraine encourage Putin to sink nascent peace talks?

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Vice President JD Vance’s suggestion this week that the U.S. could walk away from supporting Ukraine if peace talks with Russia stagnate could serve as catnip for the Kremlin, according to experts who say Russian President Vladimir Putin might choose to smother progress in hopes of getting America to wash «its hands of the war.»

While President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. may disengage from the negotiations as a last resort if they prove futile, Vance has taken the rhetoric a step further by saying the U.S. is definitely open to doing so. 

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«We’re more than open to walking away,» Vance told reporters on board Air Force Two on Monday, just moments before a high-stakes phone call between Trump and Putin. «The United States is not going to spin its wheels here. We want to see outcomes.»

But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cautioned that no one wins if the U.S. steps aside from the talks, except for Russia. 

«It is crucial for all of us that the United States does not distance itself from the talks and the pursuit of peace because the only one who benefits from that is Putin,» Zelenskyy wrote in a Monday post on X.

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Vance’s remark about abandoning mediation between the two countries would only embolden Russia, even though a lack of U.S. involvement still wouldn’t give Putin everything he wants, according to John Hardie, the deputy director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Russia program, a nonprofit research institute based in Washington.

For the moment, Moscow still benefits from U.S. involvement in the talks because the Kremlin wants the U.S. to help advance a deal that benefits Russia and alleviates sanctions, Hardie said.

«But, for the Kremlin, the United States washing its hands of the war would be the next best outcome if it means an end or reduction to U.S. support for Ukraine, especially since President Trump may well move to normalize relations with Russia anyhow,» Hardie told Fox News Digital. «So the administration’s threat to walk away risks perversely incentivizing Kremlin intransigence. A better approach would be to ramp up the economic and military pressure on Russia if Putin continues to reject compromise.»

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Russia still desires normalization with the U.S., which can only happen if the war ends swiftly and relatively amicably, said Peter Rough, a senior fellow and director of the Center on Europe and Eurasia at the Hudson Institute think tank. 

«That reset in relations is a giant carrot the administration is dangling in front of the Kremlin,» Rough told Fox News Digital. «If the U.S. walks away because Russia will not make peace, however, then that carrot disappears as well.»

Rough noted that other administration officials besides Vance, including Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have mentioned the possibility of walking away from a deal, so Vance’s comments don’t necessarily reflect a huge change in policy. And it’s unclear right now what exactly stepping aside would mean.

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«The purpose of those comments has been to impress on the Kremlin that U.S. patience is not limitless,» Rough said. 

Vance hasn’t shied away from issuing bold foreign policy statements since becoming vice president. From sparring with Zelenskyy in the Oval Office in February to appearing to counter Trump when Vance remarked in May that the war in Ukraine was far from over after Trump indicated a deal might emerge soon, Vance has been outspoken in a way most vice presidents haven’t been.

When asked for comment or if there were any concerns about Vance’s Monday statement, the White House referred Fox News Digital to Vance’s office. Vance’s office declined to provide comment when asked if his remarks would encourage Russia to sit the negotiations out and continue its attacks.

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Vice President JD Vance talks to reporters inside Air Force Two at Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome on May 19, 2025.

‘Fundamental mistrust’

Vance has adopted an outspoken approach as vice president, starting off with his fiery February statements at the Munich Security Council in which he asserted that Europe needed to «step up in a big way to provide for its own defense.» 

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That boldness has carried over into the Russia-Ukraine negotiations, where Vance has taken a proactive approach, at times appearing to be forging his own path.  

Vance and Rubio engaged in discussions to end the conflict in Ukraine with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Rome on Sunday, among other issues. Vance and Rubio also discussed the Trump administration’s efforts to end the war with Vatican prelate Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher on Monday. 

Aboard Air Force Two on Monday, Vance said the negotiations had reached «a bit of [an] impasse» between the two countries and that the conflict is not the Trump administration’s war to wage but rather belongs to former President Joe Biden and Putin. 

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«There is fundamental mistrust between Russia and the West. It’s one of the things the president thinks is, frankly, stupid, that we should be able to move beyond,» Vance told reporters. «The mistakes that have been made in the past, but … that takes two to tango.»

«I know the president’s willing to do that, but if Russia’s not willing to do that, then we’re eventually just going to have to say … this is not our war,» Vance said. «It’s Joe Biden’s war, it’s Vladimir Putin’s war. It’s not our war. We’re going to try to end it, but if we can’t end it, we’re eventually going to say, ‘You know what? That was worth a try, but we’re not doing it anymore.’»

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President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time since their Oval Office spat in February. (Vatican and Ukraine Ambassador to Holy See)

Vance’s Monday statement came just before Trump was scheduled to speak with Putin, seemingly undercutting the high-leverage telephone call and also underscoring Vance’s influence over foreign policy matters in the White House. 

Specifically on Ukraine negotiations, Vance has remained outspoken, engaging in confrontation when Zelenskyy visited the White House in February. 

In that exchange, Vance accused Zelenskyy of being «disrespectful» after Zelenskyy pointed out that Putin has a track record of breaking agreements and countered Vance’s statements that the path forward was through diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine. 

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President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky get into an argument in the Oval Office. (Getty)

«Do you think that it’s respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?» Vance asked at the Oval Office meeting. 

Almost immediately after the U.S. signed a minerals deal with Ukraine on May 1, Vance said the war in Ukraine wouldn’t end in the near future, despite the fact that Trump indicated the previous week that an agreement was on the horizon. 

«It’s not going anywhere,» Vance told Fox News on May 1. «It’s not going to end anytime soon.» 

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Still, he characterized the agreement as «good progress» in the negotiations. 

Trump’s talk with Putin

Trump and Putin spoke over the phone Monday to advance peace negotiations to halt the conflict between Moscow and Kyiv, just days after Russia and Ukraine met in Turkey to conduct their first peace talks since 2022. 

After the call, Trump said both countries would move toward a ceasefire and advance talks to end the war. 

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Meanwhile, Trump has suggested continued U.S. involvement may not be a viable option moving forward, but he has been reticent about specifics on what would actually prompt him to walk away from the talks. For example, Trump said on May 8 in an interview with NBC News that he believes peace is possible but that the U.S. wouldn’t act as a mediator forever.

«Well, there will be a time when I will say, ‘OK, keep going, keep being stupid,» Trump said in the interview. 

«Maybe it’s not possible to do,» he said. «There’s tremendous hatred.»

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Still, Trump signaled that the U.S. would take a backseat in the negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv after his call with Putin. 

«The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know the details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of,» Trump said in a Monday post on Truth Social. 

Trump has continued to distance the U.S. from the conflict, and he later described the conflict as a «European situation.» 

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«Big egos involved, but I think something’s going to happen,» Trump told reporters on Monday. «And if it doesn’t, I’ll just back away and they’ll have to keep going. This was a European situation. It should have remained a European situation.»

Trump also doubled down on extracting the U.S. from the war, claiming it didn’t involve U.S. personnel. 

«It’s not our people, it’s not our soldiers … it’s Ukraine and it’s Russia,» Trump said in the Oval Office on Wednesday while hosting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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Vice President JD Vance and Foundation Council President Wolfgang Ischinger participate in a discussion at the Munich Leaders Meeting hosted by the Munich Security Conference in Washington on May 7, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, sanctions against Russia could ramp up in the event Russia fails to cooperate. 

«President Trump has made it very clear that if President Putin does not negotiate in good faith that the United States will not hesitate to up the Russia sanctions along with our European partners,» Bessent said Sunday in an interview with NBC. 

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Vance has previously said the concessions that Russia is seeking from Ukraine to end the conflict are too stringent but believes there is a viable path to peace and wants both to find common ground. 

«The step that we would like to make right now is we would like both the Russians and the Ukrainians to actually agree on some basic guidelines for sitting down and talking to one another,» Vance said at the Munich Leaders Meeting in Washington on May 7.

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Russia’s demands include Ukraine never joining NATO and preventing foreign peacekeeper troops from deploying to Ukraine after the conflict. Russia is also seeking to adjust some of the borders that previously were Ukraine’s.

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Fox News Politics Newsletter: Trump DHS Nixes Harvard’s Student Visas

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Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content.  Here’s what’s happening…

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Noem Nixes Harvard Visas

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is eliminating the student visa program at Harvard University due to «pro-terrorist conduct» at campus protests, Fox News Digital has learned. 

It’s a severe consequence for what DHS claims is Harvard’s refusal to comply with its requests for behavioral records of student visa holders. 

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«This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,» said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. «It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.»…READ MORE

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La ofensiva de Donald Trump contra los extranjeros en Harvard: qué pasará con los argentinos que están estudiando en la Universidad

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La Universidad de Harvard es el mayor referente global en educación y la meca de la mayoría de los estudiantes del mundo y para los argentinos no es una excepción. En esa casa de estudios hay en este momento 58 alumnos e investigadores del país que transitan los antiguos edificios de Boston y que podrían ser afectados por las nuevas políticas del gobierno de Donald Trump, al ser canceladas sus visas.

Buena parte de ellos cursan maestrías en la facultad de Negocios, en la Kennedy de políticas públicas, otros en la Escuela de Artes y Ciencias otros en la de Derecho. Y algunos pocos (4) en Harvard College, que es para alumnos que comienzan su carrera universitaria.

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Del total de 58 hay 34 alumnos de college y maestrías y 24 scholars, que son investigadores que residen por algún período en la universidad para hacer algún trabajo específico, según el sitio de Harvard.

Todos han tenido que superar duros obstáculos para llegar a esas aulas: más allá de haber sido muy destacados alumnos en la Argentina, han tenido que rendir exámenes específicos, de idioma y sortear un proceso de admisión muy exigente que incluye ensayos, cartas de recomendación y entrevistas en inglés.

El porcentaje de admisión de Harvard es el más bajo de todas las universidades de los Estados Unidos. Este año solo fue aceptado un 3,4% de los que se postularon.

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Los alumnos vienen de 140 países de todo el planeta. Muchos de ellos reciben ayuda financiera para poder cursar. La diversidad geográfica y cultural es uno de los valores que defiende la Universidad, pero ahora los estudiantes internacionales sufren un período de incertidumbre.

Un ejemplo es la santiagueña Nayeli Cardozo, una joven de 18 que fue becada y que pudo cumplir su sueño de estudiar en Harvard. Hija de una maestra y un remisero, estudió en la secundaria Manuel Belgrano de Santiago del Estero y luego de aplicar a 13 universidades en EE.UU. fue aceptada en la que más quería para estudiar Psicología y Economía.

Otro es Federico Repetto, de San Justo, Santa Fe, que se recibió en la Universidad Favaloro con medalla de oro y fue aceptado el año pasado como residente en la red de hospitales de Harvard.

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Se estima que son unos 700 los argentinos que han pasado por sus aulas, entre ellos el actual embajador en EE.UU. Alec Oxenford, que estudió un máster en administración de empresas, al igual que su antecesor Fernando Oris de Roa, que había cursado un master en políticas públicas.

También cursaron allí Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Federico Sturzenegger, Juan Carlos De Pablo, Domingo Cavallo y su hija Sonia, entre otros. En Buenos Aires se fundó un Harvard Club of Argentina, que nuclea a buena parte de los egresados del país.

En algunos grupos de chat de ex alumnos estaban conmocionados con la medida anunciada este jueves. Si bien ellos no son los que sufrirán las consecuencias de la decisión del gobierno republicano, estaban conmocionados por el golpe que significaría para su “alma mater”.

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“Estamos en shock”, dijo a Clarín una argentina egresada de esa universidad. “Hay un enorme beneficio en tener una comunidad diversa e internacional y perder eso es demasiado”. Pero tenían esperanzas de que el tema pueda arreglarse. “Creo que Harvard tiene el músculo para responder y para llevar el tema a la justicia”, dijo.

Varios de los ex alumnos han firmado en contra de los ataques antisemitas en el campus donde ha estudiado y están en contra de la “militancia paga a favor de Gaza”. “Pero una cosa no quita la otra”, dice la egresada, y afirma que Trump usa ese argumento para intervenir las políticas de la universidad, que es privada.

En esos chats, un egresado europeo se lamentaba por el rumbo que había tomado el país y la pelea con la Universidad. “No estoy seguro de que el Gobierno sepa lo que significa esto. Harvard tiene una red formidable red de alumnos ex presidentes, primeros ministros, un ex secretario general de la ONU, ministros, políticos. Y también en el mundo de los negocios y de las leyes hay graduados”, señaló.

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Y advirtió que “mucha gente nos sentimos atacados, muy furiosos con lo que está haciendo el Gobierno y creo que mucha gente puede tomar revancha”.

Pese a las amenazas, la Universidad promete defender a sus alumnos. El sitio de Harvard informaba de las restricciones de visas y afirmaba que «Harvard se compromete a mantener nuestra capacidad de recibir a nuestros estudiantes y académicos internacionales, que provienen de más de 140 países y enriquecen a la Universidad y a esta nación».

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Alex Soros blasted for condemning shooting of Israelis while funding anti-Israel groups

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Far-left progressive billionaire Alex Soros is being slammed online for his statement condemning the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers despite funding anti-Israel groups through his Open Society Foundation (OSF).

Soros, who is the son and heir to George Soros’ fortune and philanthropic empire, condemned the killings in an X post, saying «the murder of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky at the Capital Jewish Museum was evil in its most basic form» and that «this brutal antisemitic act must be condemned in the strongest terms.»

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Milgrim and Lischinsky, two Israeli Embassy staffers who were set to be engaged, were killed outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night.

D.C. police identified the suspect as 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez, who was taken into custody after the shooting attack. He was allegedly seen pacing outside the museum before he approached a group of four people, including the two victims, and opened fire. Rodriguez then reportedly went into the museum, where he was detained by security. He allegedly shouted «Free, free Palestine!» while in custody.

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Far left progressive billionaire Alex Soros is being slammed online for his statement condemning the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers despite funding anti-Israel groups through his Open Society Foundation (OSF).

Though Soros condemned the killings, his statement was flooded with replies calling out his funding of radical anti-Israel groups that foment anti-Jewish sentiments.

«Alex, you and your father created this problem through the ruthless and international silencing of critics to open borders policies,» said one X user named Joseph Janecka. «Their blood is on your hands as much as their murderers. We will never forget.»

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Carl Wheless, another user, commented, «You are behind the hate, so excuse us if you don’t wish to hear from you on the matter.»

Another, Eitan Fischberger, asserted that Soros «funds the revolutionary Marxist group the shooter belonged to.»

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Though the details of Rodriguez’s affiliations are currently unclear as chair of OSF, Soros has helped to fund several leftist groups that have accused Israel of genocide and called for the end of the Jewish state.

In 2023, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs and social equality, Amichai Chikli, told Fox News Digital that Soros is a mirror image of father George’s anti-Israel agenda.

When asked if Soros would continue to fund anti-Israel entities that bash the Jewish state, Chikli said it «looks like the son is a replica of his father. We have no expectation that his son will be a big Zionist.»

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Chikli added that OSF funds Human Rights Watch, which he said, «is attacking Israelis heavily and attacking Israel as an apartheid state and delegitimizing and demonizing Israel.»

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He also said OSF funds «J Street,» an organization that claims to be pro-Israel but has faced criticism because of its support for positions that allegedly favor Iran’s regime and the Palestinians.

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Chikli also noted that the Soros foundation «gives money to radical small Palestinian organizations in Israel that describe Israel as a colonial state and a moral sin.» He cited the NGO Adalah, which means «justice» in Arabic, as an organization «denying the vision of Israel as a Jewish state» in its «published vision for Arab society in Israel.»

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The elder Soros has also faced intense criticism from Israel’s ambassador to the U.N. for pumping over $15 million into a network of nongovernmental organizations that allegedly support Hamas. 

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«George Soros’ donations to organizations that seek the destruction of the State of Israel as a Jewish state is shameful. However, I am not surprised,» Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan told Fox News Digital in December 2023.

«For years, Soros has backed and transferred money to organizations supporting BDS that want to isolate Israel,» added Erdan, who has been leading the diplomatic campaign at the U.N. to spell out Hamas’ crimes against humanity. «They have never been about real peace or any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.»

Fox News Digital’s Benjamin Weinthal, Greg Norman, Rachel Wolf and Trey Yingst contributed to this report.

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