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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

President Donald Trump just made some surprising new public statements about the Russia-Ukraine war,

and the results were pretty unimpressive. At one point, he seemed to get angry at Vladimir Putin over a massive and deadly new Russian attack on Ukraine, calling on Putin to

stop. But then, at another point, Trump seemed to suggest that he's not going to expect Russia

to make any concessions of any kind in the quest for peace. That instantly wrecked the illusion

Trump is trying to spin that he expects genuine concessions from

both sides. We're trying to unravel all of this today with Ben Burgess, a columnist at Jacobin

and a podcaster who has a good new piece for MSNBC.com, arguing that Trump's strategy for peace

in the Russia-Ukraine conflict looks likely to be counterproductive at best.

Ben, thanks for coming on.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

So to catch people up, the Trump administration this week started pressuring Ukraine to

accept a peace deal that would basically give Russia all the territory it has secured so far

while blocking Ukraine from ever joining NATO.

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