President Trump and VP Vance stated what the vast majority of the American public has been saying for the last three years:
Ukraine needs America far more than America needs Ukraine. Their country is an economic blip on our GDP radar, provides exactly zero security to our nation on its own accord, and has been a sponge on our assets and energy. The EU, who is highly reliant on Ukraine for agriculture, energy and security, has given the bare minimum of effort to their cause. I consider that a major fucking clue.
The support that has been provided to Ukraine has only been just enough to keep them from total collapse, instead intentionally prolonging the war and ensuring it achieved a hellscape stalemate resulting in nothing but death and destruction that neither side can feasibly win short of thermonuclear release of weapons. The MIC get richer, the corrupt leaders get richer, the people die horrible deaths or suffer to the point they wish they would be next. The prolonging of this war is shameful, but unsurprising.
Agriculturally, Ukraine is a sizable competitor to the US on the global markets. Steel, it's a competitor. Minerals, it's a competitor. Politically, it flies in the face of the American ideals of freedom and citizen led leadership. The Uke government has successfully silenced and embargoed its political competition, taken control of the press, and suspended its constitution. It's pure laughable hypocrisy the left, who clamor endlessly about the destruction of democracy, support Zelensky whom has does exactly that. UKRAINE IS NOT A DEMOCRACY. You have to actually hold elections to be a democracy, and they indefinitely suspended all of those. The US held elections in the middle of a Civil War in 1864, yet they cry some bullshit that it can't be done because of an ongoing war. That's the lamest of all fucking excuses.
This entire time, the support for the war in Ukraine has never been justified to me or the majority of Americans. We Americans want an end to it, surprisingly more than the people involved in the running of the fighting of the war. The only ones in the way of peace are the war hawks who wish to see their own people continue to be slaughtered like bird flu riddled chickens. They really do hate their own people that much. Why it's Americans that actually care about the citizenry of both Ukraine and Russia, more than their own leadership, is way beyond my means of rational comprehension because it is completely irrational behavior.