Holding off on punishing Moscow isn’t getting President Donald Trump any closer to peace.
Holding off on punishing Moscow isn’t getting President Donald Trump any closer to peace: Hitting Vladimir Putin with fresh secondary sanctions looks like the best, maybe only, way to get him to both sit down with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and get serious about doing a deal.
Putin and Zelensky “have to have something of a relationship, otherwise we’re just wasting a lot of time,” Trump told Fox News viewers Tuesday morning, yet it’s plainly Putin who’s refusing to meet.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tossed cold water on hopes of a face-to-face meeting soon, insisting “any contacts involving top officials should be prepared very carefully” — even though Moscow scrambled plenty fast to set up last Friday’s Putin-Trump meet.
