Tony Shaffer to Newsmax: Sticking Point to Peace Still ‘4 Provinces’

After the summit in Alaska between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended without any concrete pathway to peace, retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer told Newsmax on Saturday that “the sticking point still is the land, the four provinces” that Putin wants.

“The most important thing in my view is the fact that the two largest superpowers on the planet are at least talking,” he said during an appearance on “Wake Up America Weekend.”

And I know everybody is getting down in the weeds, and we’re looking at indicators and trying to read the tea leaves. But I think the fact that we have a path, we have a dialogue, it looks like [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy is going to come right into this.

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