Vice President JD Vance suggested he wasn`t looking to goad Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into an Oval Office shouting match back in February, but he thinks the testy exchange helped shed light on the administration’s concerns with Ukraine.

"Sometimes people disagree", Vance said in a wide-ranging interview with USA TODAY. "Do I wish that we had had a blowup in the Oval Office in public? Not necessarily". But, he added of the shocking televised throw-down, "I think that was useful for the American people to see."

Vance blames Biden`s Ukraine policy

In the interview with USA TODAY, Vance acknowledged that labeling the meeting contentious would be "to put it mildly": “There are a lot of issues of agreement between the United States and Ukraine. There are occasionally some issues of disagreement between the United States and Ukraine."

Vance said his real concern was not with the Ukrainian leader, but with the administration of former President Joe Biden, which had committed USD 128 billion to help defend Ukraine: "What always really bothered me about this relationship was not the Ukrainians as much as it was the American side, specifically the Democratic administration of Joe Biden… When Biden was in office, Zelenskyy would come to Washington and leave with billions of dollars without any real goal, any real diplomacy, any real sense of what we were going to buy with that a hundred billion dollars. And that was always what frustrated me far more than Zelenskyy was asking for help from Washington. It was that the Biden administration had no plan for how to end the war… Ukraine just felt like this weird money pit where we`d throw money after the problem without any real plan to solve the problem. That always really frustrated me".