Sources close to the US Vice President claim Vance did not intend to argue with Zelensky and believes he was provoked. They stress the dispute arose not from journalists' questions but from Zelensky's "provocative behavior" in the diplomatic environment — NBC
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/vance-leans-hard-trumps-foreign-policy-sparks-extraordinary-oval-offic-rcna194256
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/vance-leans-hard-trumps-foreign-policy-sparks-extraordinary-oval-offic-rcna194256
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Reassuring...
That's typically the russian rhetoric.
'Horses have sources'.
If you believe anything from this administration you might as well be a horse's rear end.
Waiting to see the Rat House team scaramble to try and recover from their huge pyric 'victory' of the Incontinent Orange Head being brave for America....bonespurs and all.
US gov source are now as unreliable as Russians.
I think Vance was provoked into attacking Zel in exactly the same manner as Russia was provoked into attacking Ukraine.
Naughty naughty provocateurs!
They do realise that we were all watching?
That is not what happened.
Vance attacked President Zelenskyy. It even looked a bit preplanned to my eye.
Vance is full of, well, ...
All the European nations saw what happened, and were quick to show support to the victimised Zelenskyy.
🙄
Z should have punched his face in.
That's just normal behaviour isn't it?
"It should have been 'Midnight Summer' and I was stuck wearing 'Fierce Blue'. Oh god I hope nobody noticed. I tried to make my eyes more piercing. Idk."
I don’t see Zelenskyy provoking anyone. I see a set-up. I see the Americans ambushing Zelenskyy.
Trump tried to bully Zelenskyy the same way he did in his "perfect phone call", failing again.
Vance went full tard, at the earliest opportunity. The gall to deny it...
In Munich he openly asked fot Europe to allow propaganda shape its future.
As it did in America.
Every position he takes is not in favor of what America stands for but totalitarianism.
We all know what sticklers GOPers are about not getting emotional.
MR. Vance has nothing to complain about anyone's "diplomatic behavior". He has not any idea what does that mean. His visit to European security conference was a diplomatic disaster.
It would have been so easy to treat him the way he treated Zelenskyi.
Trump lost it when US provocations failed and Ze replied "But we're not playing cards."