Former US President Donald Trump believes that Ukraine could have avoided a Russian attack by agreeing to territorial concessions and a neutral status..

" They could give Crimea. They could do something with NATO, say okay, we are not going to join NATO, and then they would have a country, because I think Putin wanted to reach an agreement, ”he said on The Clay podcast..

With the start of a full-scale Russian invasion, it will be more difficult to “negotiate”, says Trump.

Trump belongs to a cohort of leaders who believe that the war in Ukraine could be stopped by concessions to the President of the Russian Federation, allowing the dictator to " History knows many similar examples, but concessions to dictators have never helped stop further aggression..

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Earlier, The New York Times published the results of the first polls ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.. They showed that incumbent President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump are equally unpopular.

For Ukraine, Trump's return to the Oval Office does not bode well. Support for Ukraine from Republicans in the United States is gradually weakening. At the same time, Trump is on the other side - he is pro-Russian, recalls the philosopher and political scientist Francis Fukuyama.