The war between Russia and Ukraine will end in the same way the Cold War ended: through negotiations between the nations’ leaders, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer predicted on Newsmax on Sunday. 

“There was a time when both President [Ronald] Reagan and President [Mikhail] Gorbachev had to sit down at Reykjavik, Iceland, and get to the bottom line to resolve things,” Shaffer told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “I think that’s only going to be the thing that gets to the point, where we can get those two men together and try to resolve what’s going on.”

His comments come after President Donald Trump on Friday announced he ordered the positioning of two nuclear submarines toward Russia after what he referred to as “provocative statements” from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

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