President Donald Trump said that Russia is in a stronger military position in its war with Ukraine and chided European leaders for what he characterized as excessive dialog with scant results.

Trump made the comments in a wide-ranging interview with Politico published early Tuesday. Asked whether Ukraine has lost the war, Trump pointed to the swaths of land that Russia’s military has occupied in the country.

“Russia has the upper hand. And they always did. They’re much bigger and stronger in that sense. I give the people of Ukraine and the military of Ukraine tremendous credit for the bravery and the fighting all of that. But at some point size will win, generally, and this is a massive size,” Trump said.

He alluded to the magnitude of Russia’s military as a likely inevitability to the

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