Robert Wilkie, who served as secretary of veterans affairs in President Donald Trump’s first term, told Newsmax on Friday that the best solution for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine would be something similar to the armistice that ended the Korean War.

Wilkie spoke on “The Chris Salcedo Show” as Trump was meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin for high-stakes peace talks in Anchorage, Alaska.

“The best thing that could happen is an armistice,” Wilkie said. “If anybody is telling us we’re going to kick the Russians out of what they occupy, then the next step is — they’re not telling us — but to do that, we’ve got to take Moscow.

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