Analysts and former national security officials voice grave doubts Trump can fulfill such a pledge because of the conflict's complexity.

"I have a lot of Lockheed Martin stock, can you not"

But Trump may find Putin unwilling to engage, analysts and former U.S. officials said, as he has the Ukrainians on the back foot and may have more to gain by pursuing further land grabs. "Putin is in no hurry," said Eugene Rumer, a former top U.S. intelligence analyst on Russia now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank.

Brushing aside the 'intelligence analyst working for a "peace" think tank', based on prior reporting I thought Russia had lost every man between the ages of 18 and 35. Why wouldn't he be in a hurry to get himself out of this supposedly embarrassing quagmire?

"I don’t think anybody has any realistic plan for ending this," said Rumer, the former U.S. intelligence officer.

Article details feasible way to end war (with major concessions to Russia), caps article by saying it won't work

If you just wanna turn all of Ukraine into Verdun circa 1916, just say so

He could be bullshitting, and he and his cronies are incompetent enough to fumble this even if it was true, but this theoretically would be a great outcome for not having more war in the region.

It's probably just because they want to arm and train Azov II with even fancier weapons to do terror attacks or something.