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Conrad Black: Putin’s Cavalier Rejection of Trump’s Overtures Will End Badly for Russia

Conrad Black: Putin’s Cavalier Rejection of Trump’s Overtures Will End Badly for Russia
Rescuers clear debris as they work at the site of a destroyed residential building following a Russian air attack in Kyiv on July 31, 2025. Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP via Getty Images
Conrad Black
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It is about to become obvious that Russian President Vladimir Putin has committed an error of historic proportions in unleashing an aggressive war on Ukraine and provocatively ignoring the Trump administration’s genuine efforts to give Russia a way to withdraw from this barbarous misadventure with something to show for it.

Conrad Black
Conrad Black
Author
Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.