Mike McFaul: ‘There’s No Reason To Be Optimistic’ About Russia Agreeing to Resume Ukraine Peace Talks

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MCFAUL: “I'm not optimistic. There's no reason to be optimistic. After two years of negotiation, I think the Ukrainians are in worse shape than in better shape. I would have liked, in retrospect, had the Trump administration just kept the status quo, because their strategy, and you see it rhetorically by calling this dictator, this killer, this imperial autocrat, a humanitarian, is to flatter Putin and then to give him gifts.”