Are you comfortable with this approach? Well, I like most of the, most of my colleagues on the Armed Services Committee. First of all, We recognize that this war was not started by Ukraine. It was started by an aggressive dictator in Russia named Vladimir Putin. That's a given. We also acknowledge, I think, for the most part, that if we are to get a peace deal, President Zelensky is going to have to give on some of these issues, particularly the territorial issues. (05:40–05:48)
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Asserts that the war was started by Vladimir Putin, not Ukraine.
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