On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Information Channel’s “The Story,” U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker acknowledged that Vladimir Putin hasn’t ever acknowledged that there’s an excessive amount of lack of life within the conflict in Ukraine and “Russia has by no means been keen to acknowledge, and so they’ve at all times been keen to undergo greater than most international locations. These sort of losses within the hundreds of thousands of casualties would by no means be tolerated by some other nation, besides Russia.”
Host Martha MacCallum requested, “The one facet that has not mentioned they’re despondent over the quantity of killing and all the deaths, in lots of circumstances, of those younger males, many Russian troopers, many Ukrainian troopers, is Putin. Has Putin ever mentioned that is an excessive amount of lack of life, and I want to come back to the desk and we have to discover a negotiation in order that the conflict can finish?”
Whitaker responded, “He hasn’t. However Russia has by no means been keen to acknowledge, and so they’ve at all times been keen to undergo greater than most international locations. These sort of losses within the hundreds of thousands of casualties would by no means be tolerated by some other nation, besides Russia. And, on the similar time, that is what they’re doing for very small, if any, beneficial properties on the battlefield, and we have now to just accept actuality as it’s. I believe that is what President Trump is de facto good at, is, even via all of the chaos and demise and destruction that we’re seeing on the battlefield, he’s nonetheless keen to see a peace deal via and see if there’s a risk.”
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