U.S. VP Candidate Vance Calls Putin 'Adversary' But Declines To Call Him An 'Enemy'

U.S. vice presidential nominee JD Vance -- Republican Donald Trump's running mate -- acknowledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “clearly an adversary” of the United States, but he declined to call him an “enemy” during an interview with NBC News broadcast on October 27. “Just because we don’t like somebody doesn’t mean we can’t occasionally engage in conversations with him,” Vance said, adding that to end the Ukraine war, “we’re going to have to engage in some sort of negotiations” with Kyiv, Moscow, and NATO allies. Asked if he would call Putin an “enemy,” Vance responded: “We’re not in a war with him, and I don’t want to be in a war with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.”