On the heels of a Tuesday phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative, joined “The Signal Sitdown” this week to discuss the latest on the push for peace.

Mills said the three-hour call between Trump and Putin “threw a little bit of cold water” on the prospects for a rapid peace. “The Russians don’t have the most incentive right now for the war to end,” he noted.

What we know of the call offers some evidence to Mills’ claim: While both leaders signaled they want the war to end, the only deliverable from the call was that Putin agreed on a 30-day halt on attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure. 

Mills continued explaining why Russia lacks incentives to come to the table: Ukraine is only getting weaker.

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