National security expert: Putin can never be trusted

Putin cannot be trusted and seeks to divide the Western world, Executive Director of POLARIS National Security Gabriel Noronha says.

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00:00Some US officials fear Putin would use a truce to intensify efforts to divide the US, Ukraine

00:07and Europe and also undermine any further talks. Can Putin be trusted? And are these

00:14fears actually legitimate?

00:16Well, Putin can never be trusted. He's a KGB officer. He's gone to war with the West over

00:21the past 15 years. And he's delighted to see the United States, Europe and Ukraine fighting,

00:28as we have in the last month. All those fights and disagreements have only benefited Russia.

00:35It's hopeful that we are going to serve in a new direction now, that Ukraine is being

00:40a little bit more cooperative with the Trump administration. So I'm hopeful that that period

00:45of bickering is over and we can have a united front. But yes, Putin absolutely wants to

00:50use that. But he's going to use that whether there's a ceasefire or no ceasefire. He's

00:53going to continue to try to divide the West from Europe using all sorts of propaganda

00:58techniques and military coercion as well.