President Donald Trump’s latest approach to the Russia-Ukraine war, in which he suggested it may be best to allow them to continue fighting for a while before there is an intervention, is “absolutely right,” former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie said on Newsmax Saturday. 

“There’s no incentive for either side to stop,” Wilkie told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend,” noting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy isn’t losing the war.

“The Russians have suffered over 1 million casualties, and they haven’t really gained much,” he added. “I think in the last year, they’ve gained 50 miles, and the District of Columbia is 85 miles. That tells you how little they’ve done.”

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