Trump tells Putin: ‘It might be better to let Russia and Ukraine fight for a while’

Trump suggests it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia 'fight for a while'AP

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00:00Sometimes, and this is me speaking, maybe in a negative sense,

00:05but sometimes you see two young children like crazy.

00:08They hate each other and they're fighting in a park.

00:12And you try and pull them apart. They don't want to be pulled.

00:14Sometimes you're better off letting them fight for a while

00:17and then pulling them apart.

00:20And I gave that analogy to Putin yesterday.

00:23I said, President, maybe you're going to have to keep fighting

00:28and suffering a lot because both sides are suffering

00:31before you pull them apart, before they're able to be pulled apart.

00:34But it's a pretty known analogy.

00:37You have two kids, they fight, fight, fight.

00:40Sometimes you let them fight for a little while.

00:42You see it in hockey, you see it in sports.

00:45The referees, let them go for a couple of seconds.

00:47Let them go for a little while before you pull them apart.

00:51And maybe, maybe, and I said it,

00:54and maybe that's a negative because we're saying go.

00:56But a lot of bad blood, there's some bad blood.