The plan to rearm Ukraine’s military revealed by President Donald Trump on Monday might not move the needle to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war, but the threat of secondary sanctions could lead to a ceasefire, Kurt Volker told Newsmax on Monday.
After meeting with NATO Secretary-General Marc Rutte at the White House, Trump said the U.S. would help Europe send more weapons to Ukraine and warned that Russia would be hit by “very severe tariffs” if there is no peace deal in 50 days.
“Putin is now on some historical mission, as he sees it, to rebuild the Russian Empire,” Volker, U.S. ambassador to NATO in the George W. Bush administration, told “American Agenda.”
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