Earlier this month, US Vice President JD Vance dismissed the war in Ukraine as a fight over “a small piece of land.” President Volodymyr Zelensky responded plainly: Ukraine will not surrender its land without real security guarantees. That exchange exposes something deeper. JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official . Why is the United States pressuring the nation under attack instead of the one carrying it out? We already understand the moral logic at stake.