Pence urges Trump to impose sanctions on Putin after Alaska summit

Former Vice President Mike Pence said on Sunday that President Donald Trump needs to bring “hammer” to Russian President Vladimir Putin with additional secondary sanctions.

After a meeting with Putin at a high-hand summit in Alaska, Trump moved from Ukraine and Russia to advocate the immediate ceasefire deal for a broad “peace agreement”.

On Sunday, in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union”, Pence described Trump’s style as a “velvet glove” approach to dealing with dictators, but said he said he feels “a hammer needs to come, and it needs to come immediately.”

The Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelansky is expected to join the Oval Office on Monday by the United Kingdom and European leaders. Pence said that Trump said at the same time, “to pick up the phone and ask” the Leader of the Senate’s majority John Theun, rupee “,” to pass the bill of secondary sanctions supported by almost all by everyone in the United States Senate. ,

Putin seems to be blindly angry because reporters have barged him and Trump with questions.

“The combination of engagement, but Putin is also making it clear that we are ready to do tasks that will break their economy even after re -starting their commitment to protect Ukraine,” Pence said.

He later said, “The last thing we want to see is that Putin used this latest delay to continue this war, until the winter hit and fighting season essentially passes into that part of the world,” he later said. “We cannot allow Vladimir to be taken out this year and this season in this season.

Pence, who worked as Vice President of Trump during his first term, reiterated how Putin attacked Georgia under President George W. Bush, attacked Crimea under President Barack Obama, and attacked Ukraine after “that destructive return” from Afghan under President Joe Biden.

Pence told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “Putin did not make any secret to the fact that he wanted to re -influence the old Soviet region, which we called the evil empire in Eastern Europe.” “I think Putin understands only strength, so while the President and his diplomat team attach to this again with Putin, and there is interest, in my decision, Putin is not going to stop until he stops.”

Pence said that Trump “should be appreciated for chasing peace in Ukraine,” given that the President has already gained peace agreements in Africa, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

“I think he is entitled to credit as a leader of an independent world to not give up on Ukraine,” Pence said, “There are many voices in and around in administration who would have loose Ukraine months ago.”

Democrats suspect that Ukraine will protect the ceasefire at the Alaska Summit with Trump Putin

Pence said that he wanted to appreciate the President for “trying to progress”, but he said that he liked to see a ceasefire deal. Nevertheless, he said that “no deal is better than a bad deal.”

Based on the details of the talks of American Special Envoy Steve Witcoff’s negotiations, Pence said there was “at least one climb at the meeting of Putin and Trump, who provided security guarantee to the United States, and clearly, the President did nothing to do anything with the US national security or with the safety of our colleagues in Eastern Europe between this war.”

Witcoff told CNN that the Trump administration “intends to try to end a peace deal that permanently ends the fight – very, very quickly, faster than a ceasefire.” He also said that Trump could not agree to Ukrainian to “exchange any kind of land”. At the summit, Putin pushed Ukrainians to withdraw from Donnetsk and Luhansk in exchange for Russian forces freezing fronts in other regions.

“At the end of the day, it is important to remember that the bad men here are Putin. Putin began an unsafe cruel attack over three years ago,” said Pence. “Now more than ever, the US and our colleagues need to stand firm with Ukraine and create conditions for a justified and permanent peace.”

The minute before talking to CNN on Sunday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social, teasing: “Great progress on Russia. Keep up!”

Trump also criticized media reporting about his meeting with Putin.

Trump wrote on social media on Sunday on Sunday, “It is incredible how fake news comes to me.” “There is nothing that I can say or can inspire them to write or report honestly about me. I held a great meeting on Biden’s stupid war in Alaska, a war that should never have been !!!”

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Trump said, “If I was left as part of Russia as part of the deal, fake news, and his partner, radical left democrats, would say that I have made a terrible mistake and a very bad deal,” said Trump. “This is why they are fake news! Also, they should talk about 6 wars, etc., I just stopped !!!