Trump pushing ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine

 Newsmax:

President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened "devastating" financial penalties for Russia if President Vladimir Putin does not agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine.

"There are things that wouldn't be pleasant in a financial sense. I can do things financially that would be very bad for Russia. I don't want to do that because I want to get peace," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

"In a financial sense, yes, we could do things that would be very bad for Russia, that would be devastating for Russia. But I don't want to do that because I want to see peace. And we’re getting close to maybe getting something done. We got Ukraine done. And, as you know, Ukraine might have been the more difficult party. You were here a week ago when some interesting things happened. I had somebody who didn’t seem to want peace. Now he's agreed to peace."
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I believe that Putin launched the war with Ukraine because he feared they were going to join NATO.  He did not want NATO on his border.  Ukraine turned out to be a much more difficult challenge than Russia anticipated.  I suspect that one of the reasons for that is that Russia's conventional forces were grossly overrated. The Russians thought they could take Ukraine in a matter of days and two years later they are still bogged down in a costly war that they are not winning.  Ukraine has benefited from the support of NATO countries like the US.

See also:

Russian defenses down 337 Ukrainian drones – MOD

Ukraine launched its biggest ever overnight raid on Moscow, the city’s mayor has said

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