Retired U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark told Newsmax Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions go far beyond Ukraine and that the recent summit between Putin and President Donald Trump should not be viewed as a victory for either side.

“I don’t think it was a win, but I think we can’t look at things that way,” Clark, the former NATO supreme allied commander, said in an interview on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.”  “President Putin, since he’s been in office, has wanted to restore the Soviet Union. He said it was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century, the collapse of the Soviet Union. And he’s worked methodically, patiently, but with deliberate violence to accomplish this.”

Clark said that U.S. policy over several administrations has failed to stop Putin’s expansionist efforts.

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