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So there is something to talk about, we need to talk. Time has been lost in many respects. We have spoken about such interest before, so the ball is in the court of the U.S., which has stopped all substantive contacts with our country,
We'd like to see denuclearization ... and I will tell you President Putin really liked the idea of cutting way back on nuclear. And I think the rest of the world, we would have gotten them to follow, and China would have come along too,
But Russia already prevented from selling anything in U.S. So this threat of 'Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions' seems empty. If Trump wants to put pressure on Putin, he needs to ramp up support for Ukraine. Otherwise it's just weak rhetoric from Trump which Putin will ignore."
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Bill Kristol, the director of Defending Democracy Together, wrote