Donald Trump says negotiations to end the war in Ukraine have begun and both Russia and Ukraine want peace. The US president chose to call the instigator of the war Vladimir Putin first to discuss a potential deal, raising fears he’ll push Ukraine to the sidelines. The US is already insisting that Ukraine can’t restore its territory to what it had in 2014 and it says Ukraine won’t join the NATO military alliance. Today, international relations expert Rajan Menon on what peace might really look like under Trump. Featured: Rajan Menon, professor emeritus of international relations at the City College of New York and senior research scholar at Columbia University

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