Ending Russia-Ukraine war will take time and effort, Mike Waltz says
PoliticoHost Jonathan Karl asked Waltz if the meeting would just be Trump and Putin, or whether it might also include President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine. Trump said repeatedly during the campaign that he would be able to end the Russia-Ukraine war on his first day in office, or even earlier that that. Now let’s move forward.” Waltz, a Republican member of Congress from Florida, said that Trump’s rhetoric has helped dispel the idea that the war was a hopeless quagmire that would just go on and on. Waltz told Karl it was “striking” that since the election “how many people have gone from just unqualified, blank check, as long as it takes, whether that’s months, years, decades in terms of perpetuating this war, which really has bogged down to a World War I-style meat grinder of people and resources, with World War III consequences, to now even President Zelenskyy walking in the room in Paris and saying, ‘Ready to work with you to end this war.’”