HR McMaster: Putin wants Trump to “help him off the mat”

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370191241112

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  1. Former National Security Advisor (Ret.) Lt. Gen. [HR McMaster](https://www.hoover.org/profiles/h-r-mcmaster) joined ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss President Donald Trump holding a phone call with Putin over the war in Ukraine. McMaster explains his view that one of Putin’s central aims headed into negotiations with Trump is to try to drive a wedge between the United States and European NATO allies. McMaster further argues that Putin knows he has put Russia into a “weak position,” and thus is using the prospect of peace talks to try to improve Russia’s strategic situation. McMaster likens Russia 2025 to Iran in 2015, when at a critical juncture in negotiations over their nuclear program, Iran’s leaders persuaded the Obama administration to pursue the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action deal that eased sanctions in exchange for nuclear compliance. Employing a wrestling metaphor, McMaster counsels the Trump administration to avoid helping Russia “get off the mat.”

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