<p>Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said over the weekend that President Donald Trump was ready to start increasing pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to force him to end his war in Ukraine.</p>
<p>Mullin made the remarks during a Sunday interview with ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; with Jonathan Karl when asked about an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal that said Trump was the one who &#8220;wants a deal more,&#8221; implying that he was not arguing from a position of strength.</p>
<p>&#8220;Is President Trump poised to actually really turn the screws on Putin?&#8221; Karl asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;Absolutely because Putin knows the one person that can truly change the war is the United States,&#8221; Mullin responded. &#8220;If we went all in for Ukraine, if we went all in with the resources we have, from air superiority to – to the weapons that we can deploy to Ukraine, Putin knows at that point he would be in an extremely negative position.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that being the opportunity for President Trump to talk to Putin and say, listen, we want to end the war,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to have to engage more. But we&#8217;re not going to allow you to move forward. So, let&#8217;s negotiate a peace deal here or you&#8217;re going to force our hand to be farther involved. That&#8217;s what peace through strength is. It&#8217;s negotiating peace, but using strength as a backup. If you make us do something, we will do it.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We did this in Syria when President Trump was in office in 2017,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;You saw that Putin went ahead and engaged with – with – with Syria. They used chemical weapons. And immediately what President Trump did is he bombed the airport and took over the air space that Russia was [in] control over, and he controlled the air space for the remainder of his presidency. So we had the ability to do it and Putin knows that.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin says Pres. Trump has the capability to apply pressure to Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin to negotiate a deal to end the war in Ukraine.</p>
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