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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

Can Trump End The Russia-Ukraine War?

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

Christianity, News, Religion & Spirituality, Politics

4.9593 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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But the real question is: does Putin even WANT to end this war? The fact that Trump wants the killing to end speaks to his heart, and also the American ethos that we value human life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.7

So we had our wonderful Breitbart World editor

0:37.8

on the series XM show the other day and she brought forward an analysis that I've never heard

0:42.5

before and checks out and it's dark, but it's probably more realistic than what I've been

0:50.8

considering. I made a flippant comment because it would have been on Friday show

0:57.2

that this meeting with Putin and then today we had all the world leaders, a bunch of world leaders

1:03.4

from Europe, joined the president at the White House, never a gathering like this at the White

1:08.0

house ever with all these European leaders and they got there in like a day. Trump called the meeting and everyone dropped everything and showed up and it was great. And a wonderful sign of Trump's power and strength and prestige and influence and they all talked about how Trump made all this happen. It was great. So it was all it was all good. But and I said a comment, I was like, you know, this is all good developments. if you want the ward end. If you don't want the ward to end, then I guess it's not very good. But, and I said a comment, I was like, you know, this is all good developments.

1:27.6

If you want the war to end, if you don't want the ward end, then I guess it's not very good.

1:31.8

And then I just moved on. But Francis came in and she said, there's a high likelihood that Putin does not want this war to end.

1:42.0

And it's like, well, maybe Russia, maybe Putin doesn't want the war to end. See, I'm doing this analysis on the ending of this war from a very, and you and I, we're doing it from a rational perspective, as if there's rational actors. Like, oh, wow, a lot of people are dying. That's terrible. Therefore, we should end the war. Well, how can we do that? Well, we'll give up a little land. We'll get a security guarantee. Let me slow that down. Ukraine gets a security guarantee from all of Europe, sort of like a NATO Section 5 that says if Ukraine's attacked, then you're attacking the whole world that we'll all attack you back. So a little preventative measure there. Ukraine can get that. And then Russia gets a little bit of land. They'll get Crimea. And they'll get maybe maybe some of eastern Ukraine called the Dombas region. And everyone's a little upset. Everyone's a little happy. And we can stop the killing. That's a rational actor perspective of it.

2:35.0

And we look at that, we're like, oh, yeah, that makes sense.

2:37.3

But Putin's not.

2:39.1

It's not a rational actor.

2:40.8

It's a murder as a dictator.

2:41.9

Like, what makes this think that he would come at this rationally at all?

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