Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer told Newsmax that President Donald Trump’s leverage against Russia to end its conflict with Ukraine is dwindling.

Shaffer told “The Chris Salcedo Show” that convincing Russian President Vladimir Putin to take his winnings and call it finished is getting more difficult. “The win in the war is the issue,” he said. “They’re actually gaining ground right now.”

“It’s hard to convince someone, when they’re holding a straight flush, that when the guy thinks you’re holding a pair of twos, that he needs to put his hand down,”  he said in poker terms.

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