Trump claimed victory in Gaza after brokering a peace agreement between Israel and Hamas.

As the ceasefire appears to be tentatively holding, the US President is now turning back to his other passion project; ending the war in Ukraine.

As Trump addressed the Knesset , Israel’s Parliament, following the Gaza deal, he made his plans clear, saying “we have to get Russia done”, and is due to meet with Putin in Hungary.

But after months of negotiations failed to bear fruit, what new levers can he pull to force peace with Putin, and will they have any effect?

Impose further sanctions

One option available to Trump is ramping up sanctions on Russia.

As successive sanctions packages have already been imposed on Russia, Trump would need to move to secondary sanctions targeting the countries

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