Trump says he'll know 'in the first two minutes' if Ukraine peace deal is possible with Putin

Tammy Bruce the State Department spokeswoman advised me in an interview that the president is strategically positioned to stop the fighting in Ukraine The point is that the killing has to end she disclosed on Media Buzz And if there s anybody who can confront and deal with and manage Putin it is Donald Trump ZELENSKYY URGES DIRECT TALKS WITH PUTIN AS TRUMP SETS PEACE DEADLINEBut what if it s Putin who s managing Trump And how can there be any kind of settlement when Volodymyr Zelenskyy is refusing to participate saying the Kremlin dictator is trying to deceive America Trump addressed this on the previous day at his news conference on the feds taking over the D C police department and let s just say he made a point of lowering expectations One thing that s impossible to ignore is that whenever Trump threatens sanctions against Moscow he finds a way to avoid following through Remember the -day deadline And then the -day deadline Putin has been diplomatically isolated since his illegal invasion of Ukraine which has featured the deliberate killing of civilians By inviting him to Alaska which America bought from Russia in and is no longer deemed Seward s Folly Trump is granting Putin respect as a legitimate world leader not a pariah Putin s plan all along has been to make gains on the battlefield and then hold onto all or largest part of that land in any settlement That s why he s continued to intensively bomb Ukraine killing more civilians even amid the chatter about peace Zelenskyy says he can t cede any land because that would violate the country s constitution It would also create a political firestorm at home But a current poll says percent of Ukrainians are willing to give up specific territory to end the war TRUMP BLASTS ZELENSKYY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL OBJECTION TO 'LAND SWAPPING' IN UKRAINE WARTrump has talked about specific swapping of territories but Ukraine doesn t have much to swap The country took over square miles in a surprise attack in the Russian area of Kursk but that has dwindled to just four square miles and came at the cost of vital casualties So this could be a repeat of what happened when Russia seized Crimea in The world was outraged and then everything went back to normal As for Putin Trump communicated reporters the preceding day I d have a great call with him and then missiles would be lobbed into Kyiv I m going to be telling him to end this war I get along with Zelenskyy but I disagree with what he s done The president revealed he ll try to get a few territory back for the good of Ukraine Maybe in the first two minutes I ll know whether a deal can be made If not I may leave and say good luck Now you might question why Trump is granting Putin an audience on U S soil without any previous understanding The president believes in face-to-face negotiating but it doesn t reliably work For all the love letters between him and Kim Jong-un North Korea never budged on its nuclear project Trump explained of Putin and Zelenskyy Ultimately I m going to put the two of them in a room Well maybe Even if Zelenskyy goes to Alaska or a later meeting with Putin he s not going to agree to rewarding Russia for its military aggressiveness giving land to the occupier as he put it Trump may blame Zelenskyy as the fall guy but that doesn t get us any closer to peace Besides Zelenskyy would understandably want shield guarantees Otherwise Putin could use a cease-fire to allow his forces to rest and recuperate then attack again in six months or a year a replay of the post-Crimea strategy So much for settling the war in hours It s a bloody frustrating complicated war that has resulted in huge casualties for both sides But it all stems from an illegal invasion by a dictator who insists that Ukraine has no right to exist