Is Trump wrong to negotiate with Russia?
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🗓️ 21 February 2025
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The peace talks between America and Russia continue to dominate headlines, with leaders in Europe and Ukraine increasingly wary of how they’ve been excluded from those discussions. While President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and even Russian President Vladimir Putin have all acknowledged that Ukraine will be part of the negotiations when they begin in earnest, that is not how much of the Western world has seen this week’s events.
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| 1:07.7 | The peace talks between America and Russia continue to dominate headlines, with leaders in Europe and Ukraine increasingly wary of how they've been excluded from those discussions. |
| 1:19.4 | While President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and even Russian President Vladimir Putin, have all acknowledged that Ukraine will be part of the negotiations when |
| 1:28.8 | they begin in earnest. This is not how much of the Western world has seen this week's events. |
| 1:33.7 | It didn't help that the conversations with Russia's representation have already essentially |
| 1:39.4 | acknowledged that Ukraine will likely not be able to join NATO and that Russia will keep much, if not all, |
| 1:46.1 | of the land they have taken so far in the war. |
| 1:48.6 | Couple those assessions with Trump's recent rhetoric in which he called Ukrainian President Zelensky |
| 1:54.3 | a dictator and implied that Ukraine bore responsibility for starting the war, |
| 1:59.7 | and it's not difficult to see why many are wary of America leading the push for peace. |
| 2:05.3 | After all, one of Trump's most frequent claims throughout his campaign was that he would bring an end to the war in Ukraine and that he would do it quickly. |
| 2:14.0 | While he has already missed his first deadline of having an agreement in place before he |
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