Republican 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said on Sunday that he would agree to “major concessions” to Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine war.
The Russia-Ukraine war, launched by Putin last February, has remained a major point of discussion for the 2024 election as candidates seek to prove themselves as strong leaders on foreign policy, a key responsibility of U.S. presidents.
Republicans have been critical of President Joe Biden’s approach to the war, saying that him giving Ukraine billions of dollars of military aid does not benefit Americans and that those funds should instead be spent domestically. However, that aid has been credited with bolstering Ukraine’s defense efforts against Russia’s invasion, which has been widely condemned as unprovoked and lacking justification.
Ramaswamy, a businessman, has pledged that, if elected, he would “not spend…
