“While negotiations are ongoing, both sides are going to continue to conflict until something is agreed upon that would end it,” Gaub said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “But it also tells me that though Russia is in some ways agreeing to these kinds of things, they’re going to continue forward because, frankly, there’s no reason for them not to.”
Russia, he added, has the advantage and the forces to win against Ukraine.
“They are ultimately looking like they could win this war, whatever that looks like, to define what win means,” he said. “But they’re going to continue to secure as much land as they possibly can in anticipation of potentially trying to say, this is what we want to hold on to, this is the deal we’re willing to make, and they’re going to want to move that border west to make sure it stays there.”
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