Trump to Putin: Make a Deal ... Or Else

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : This is good advice and a welcome approach by Trump to this conflict.
47% : It's fair to say that Trump has made it clear that he wants an end to the war, and that he's prepared to use both carrots and sticks to get it.
46% : " Trump may not have unveiled a "detailed" strategy to end the war, but he certainly displayed his opening move within the first 36 hours of his presidency.
46% : Whether or not subsequent efforts to have Ukraine join the EU and/or NATO were provocative or simply expressions of Ukrainian self-determination, we put them in a position that left Ukraine vulnerable to a brute-force effort by Russia to return Ukraine to a Muscovite empire.
45% : Today, Trump threatened to levy massive sanctions against Vladimir Putin's regime if he didn't get serious about ending the war in Ukraine, and ... this was the only headline on the front page about it as of 2:45 pm ET (the black oval): If you squint really hard, you'll see this as an update on their live blog.
41% : If we don't make a "deal," and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.
40% : Even if readers can barely find it, their report actually does a decent job of covering the basics: President Trump on Wednesday threatened to impose tariffs and sanctions on Russia if President Vladimir V. Putin does not reach a deal to end the war in Ukraine.
35% : In that sense, Trump is holding closer to the position that Joe Biden held, only with more pressure added to a short-term opportunity.
33% : In a post on social media, Mr. Trump said he was "not looking to hurt Russia" but warned that if Mr. Putin did not make a deal "soon" that he had no choice than to put "high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States.
33% : Whether Putin recognizes that is another question, but at least Trump is making clear that he's not going to go along with a Munich 1938 approach to solving this conflict.
29% : Notably and rationally, Trump is applying public pressure on Putin rather than Zelensky, and for good reason.
28% : He's destroying Russia for no good reason, and Trump wants Putin to think seriously about making concessions that will put an end to it: I'm not looking to hurt Russia.
27% : Given all of the very bad options left at this point, Trump has wisely chosen the least bad for everyone.
22% : In fact, as the NYT points out, Trump started off even earlier than that, calling for Putin to stop destroying his own country in this pointless war: Hours after he was inaugurated on Monday, Mr. Trump issued some of his most critical comments he had ever made about Mr. Putin when he said the Russian president was "destroying Russia" by waging war in Ukraine.
14% : Remember when the New York Times led the mainstream media pack in painting Donald Trump as hopelessly compromised as a tool of Russian intelligence?
7% : In between the main headline over Elon Musk's criticism of Trump's AI deal and the revocation of LBJ's executive order on affirmative action, you get this headline: "Trump pushes Putin to end war in Ukraine, threatening Russia with tariffs and sanctions.

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