President Donald Trump’s strategy of “peace through strength” is proving to be the only way to push Russian President Vladimir Putin toward serious negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, according to Ukrainian lawmaker Kira Rudik on Newsmax Saturday.
“First of all, I think we need to be clear that the call by Putin to President Trump started exactly after the threat to provide Ukraine with Tomahawk missile systems, which proves that the peace through strength strategy is the only way that is working with Putin and honestly, with anybody else,” Rudik, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, told Newsmax’s “America Right Now.”
She added that Putin’s recent outreach to Trump came only after the U.S. president threatened to send Tomahawk missile systems to Ukraine, and pointed out that Ukraine has already accepted Trump’s proposal for talks.
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