HR McMaster on Trump claim he could end Ukraine war: ‘I don’t really buy it’

Second of Trump's four national security advisers says his boasts are a real myth - it's a real misunderstanding of war'

A former US national security adviser during Donald Trump's presidency has dismissed the Republican White House nominee's boasts that he would broker an end to Russia's war in Ukraine if elected in November as a real myth".

I don't really buy it," HR McMaster said Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation. I think it's a real myth - it's a real misunderstanding of war - to assume that you can get a favorable political outcome without a favorable military outcome.