What Trump is trying to do in order to convince Putin to come to the table is not going to work if Putin senses weakness on the part of the United States.
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Panetta warns that Trump's strategy may embolden Putin and worsen the conflict in Ukraine.
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Well, I think you saw a tragic and historic moment take place in the Oval Office, in which 80 years of United States foreign policy has largely been turned on its head.
It's going to be tough to do, I would think but, you know, obviously, it would be -- it would be good to be able to find out who in the White House made that call, because that could add to the theory that the White House was very involved…
I don't like the idea that former soldiers who served well, uh, at least during the time they spent in the military, uh, that somehow there was something that happened that then turned them into terrorists.
You have my commitment to work on this in a systemic way and a bipartisan way because it shouldn't matter who sits in this seat.





