President Donald Trump, who initially pushed for an immediate ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, now has one option — economic sanctions against Moscow — to help bring the war to an end, Fred Fleitz, a former Trump National Security Council chief of staff, told Newsmax on Sunday.
“He moved towards a comprehensive peace deal, which he wanted quickly, and he provided some pretty significant incentives to Putin to do this,” Fleitz said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.”
But after Russian President Vladimir Putin continued with strikes on Ukraine, rejecting the ceasefire, there is no other way to get peace in Ukraine “without punishing Russia and punishing it hard,” said Fleitz.
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