Mark Dubowitz

What I am suggesting is there's a package right now of sanctions that have 88 co-sponsors in the Senate across party lines.

And I think Trump is using that and will use that as a sort of sword of Damocles hanging over Putin and the Russian economy to say, look, Vladimir, we either do a ceasefire or I'm going to have no choice but to have to start imposing much more punishing sanctions on you and on the Russian economy.

So I think there's an economic option.

I think there's a military option.

And I think the biggest mistake Biden made

in this whole war, and there's many mistakes in terms of signaling, not having U.S.

credibility, Afghan debacle, which signaled to Putin that he could invade without any kind of American response, is he kind of went in and he tied Ukraine's hands behind their back.

I mean, he actually tied one hand behind their back while they were fighting with the other hand, and he refused to give him the kinds of systems that early on in the war would have allowed the Ukrainian military

To be able to hit Russian forces that were mobilizing on the Russian Ukrainian border.

And I think if he had done that, I think this war would have ended sooner.

There'd be far less casualties.

And I think Putin would then understand, maybe I need to stop.

Strike a deal.

I'm not a Russia expert or Ukraine expert.

I don't know what the deal looks like.

You keep the Donbass, you keep Crimea, you keep, you know, larger chunks of eastern Ukraine.

That's for smarter people than me on this issue to decide what the deal looks like.

But there's no doubt today Putin thinks that he can just keep fighting, keep killing Ukrainians.

keep driving forward.

Eventually, he's going to wear down the Ukrainians through a sheer war of attrition.