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Sen. Eric Schmitt told Fox News Sunday in no uncertain terms that the bloodletting in Ukraine can’t be allowed to continue and that President Trump’s recently reported peace framework deserves a fair look as a path to end the slaughter. Schmitt called the conflict a “meat grinder” and urged a realist approach—recognizing the battlefield facts rather than clinging to Washington’s failed fantasies about endless arming and sanctioning.
The Missouri senator laid out the blunt reality: Ukraine has been losing ground, is strapped for manpower and munitions, and cannot rely on another round of cash and weapons to deliver a miracle. He said the 28-point proposal now being worked in Geneva is a framework that seeks to preserve Ukrainian sovereignty while stopping further territorial loss and making a lasting peace possible. That hardheaded perspective is exactly what Americans elected a president to pursue—practical peace, not performative posturing.
Schmitt also made the conservative case that the American people are fed up with Wilsonian adventurism and open-ended commitments that put our sons and daughters on foreign soil while Europe shirks its responsibilities. He insisted Europeans must step up and shoulder the heavy lifting for the defense of their own continent instead of expecting Washington to bankroll every conflict for eternity. It’s time Washington reorients to homeland security and the real principal adversary in the Pacific — a point too few in the permanent bureaucracy will admit.
Of course, the proposal has critics who warn it could lock in Russian gains and weaken Ukraine’s long-term deterrent, and that pushback is loud in some corners of the Beltway and on the Hill. Those warnings merit debate, but conservatives should not reflexively prefer perpetual war over a serious negotiation that could stop the killing and begin reconstruction. The alternative on offer by many in the Washington consensus has been grinding failure and mounting costs for American taxpayers and Ukrainian civilians alike.
Schmitt didn’t stop at Europe; he used the platform to back strong action in our own hemisphere, defending the President’s authority to go after narco-terrorists and to protect Americans from poison pouring across our southern border. He argued these measures are rooted in Article II powers and necessary to defend the homeland against drug cartels operating with impunity out of regimes like Venezuela’s. Conservatives should cheer a government that pivots resources to protecting citizens first and foremost.
Patriots know peace that preserves our interests is not weakness but strategy, and Schmitt’s message was clear: end the senseless killing, force allies to do their part, and refocus American power where it matters most. If that means hard bargains and uncomfortable compromises to stop the slaughter and rebuild a sovereign, prosperous Ukraine, so be it — the lives saved and dollars conserved will vindicate a realist foreign policy. Washington’s elites can cluck; hardworking Americans want results, not moralizing that keeps boys and girls in uniform in harm’s way forever.
