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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Yet beyond grit, Trump also knows he holds the winning cards.
49% : "[Trump] can't talk to Russia this way," Andrey Gurulyov, a member of the Russian Duma and a regular guest on Russia-1, whimpered hours later to host Vladimir Solovyov on Russia's most popular TV talk show.
37% : Trump has also made it clear he will impose "high levels" of economic tariffs and sanctions on Russia -- and on Wednesday, in a very Reaganesque move, he publicly called on NATO member-states to increase defense spending from 2% of GDP to 5%.Simply put, Trump is utilizing Cold War tactics, expressing American willingness to outfight and outspend Putin.
35% : "How is [Trump] talking to us?
35% : This month, Waltz warned on ABC News' "This Week" that Trump was prepared to lift Biden's restrictions on supplying long-range weapons to Ukraine, to "force Putin to sit down at the negotiating table.
30% : Trump is not a man who backs down in the face of a threat.
29% : But with Trump at the helm, Biden's predictable weakness is gone -- and Putin's time is running out.
28% : Trump is determined to end the war on his terms, one way or the other.
26% : Trump just gave retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, the newly appointed White House envoy to Ukraine and Russia, a 100-day deadline to bring an end to the war in Ukraine.
22% : Instead of giving Putin the golden key to the Ukrainian kingdom, Trump issued an ultimatum to the Kremlin: Cut a deal to end the war or, as he posted Wednesday on Truth Social, "It is only going to get worse
19% : Moscow is in a tizzy: The denizens of the Russian capital did not see this version of President Trump coming for Mad Vlad.

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