Trump urges Putin to 'make a deal' to end Ukraine war -- or face tariffs and sanctions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : In a statement posted to his Truth Social platform, Trump said he was "not looking to hurt Russia" and expressed "love" for the Russian people while boasting of his "very good relationship" with Putin - who in 2016 ordered what the Department of Justice called a "sweeping and systematic" effort to interfere in the presidential election on Trump's behalf.
63% : For his part, Zelensky told attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday that a sit-down between him and Trump was in the works.
42% : The president added a threat that if a "deal" was not reached "soon," he would 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.
37% : "The Ukrainian leader last met with Trump last September in New York while Trump was in the midst of his campaign for the presidency against then-vice president Kamala Harris.
34% : Trump has not spoken to Putin since he was sworn in on Monday, though the two leaders have reportedly spoken during the transition period following last year's presidential election.
32% : "Trump later told Fox News that he'd "learned a lot" from the sit-down and said both he and Zelensky "want to see this end" and " want to see a fair deal made,"
27% : "Trump added: "Let's get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with!
27% : "Trump has long promised that he would bring the war in Ukraine to an end when he returned to the White House.
27% : At the time, Zelensky said he believed he and Trump shared a "common view that the war has to be stopped and Putin can't win.
26% : So he can't be thrilled, [it's] not making him look very good," Trump said before adding that roughly 1 million Russian soldiers and 700,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died during the war.
25% : Trump also noted that the former Soviet Union lost 60 million people when it allied itself against Nazi Germany and with the U.S. and the U.K. during the Second World War.
22% : IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE," Trump said.
19% : Trump also said Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky had told him that he wants to "make a deal" to end the war.

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