The Biden administration allowed the war in Ukraine to continue without any prospects for peace, but President Donald Trump has strongly voiced the U.S.’s desire that the fighting end, Veterans Administration Secretary Doug Collins told Newsmax Thursday.

“What we didn’t see in previous administrations that we’re seeing now in this administration is a clear ‘let’s’ solve the problem,'” Collins told “Rob Schmitt Tonight.”

“We’re tired of going around the edges. We’re tired of letting this become a stalemate that we saw in World War I — kind of trench warfare, where they’re moving maybe 50 yards in a day sometimes.

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