00:00Trump has said he wanted to achieve peace through strength.
00:04Is this method working when it comes to negotiations with Russia?
00:08Or is it time to start applying maximum pressure?
00:12If sanctions aren't going to be the answer, what is?
00:18Indeed, I think we've reached that point because the Russians have been participating in the talks,
00:25starting in Riyadh, going through to the Istanbul deal, a meeting that was just two weeks ago,
00:30the first time the direct contact between Ukraine's side and Russian's side since the war began.
00:36And it's stalled.
00:38And people have been complaining and saying that Putin's playing for time.
00:43And I think the size and ferocity of this missile attack this weekend now definitively says that the Kremlin's actually not interested in talks.
00:54It thinks it's got the advantage on the battlefield, which it actually does.
00:58And Putin wants to see it through the fighting season.
01:01We're just coming into the main fighting season in the summer, which will go through until September when the mud comes back.
01:07And Putin wants to make as much gains as he can.
01:10And he's only prepared to do talks if Zelensky basically capitulates, gives up the five regions that Russia occupies, promises never to join NATO.
01:20And so sanctions in this play a role.
01:23But the trouble with sanctions, I mean, we've had like 17 rounds from the EU and they basically had no effect.
