President Donald Trump has made it clear he believes the war in Ukraine has devolved into a bloody meatgrinder, where neither side will reap anything but further death and destruction from continued fighting.

“It’s time to stop this madness,” Trump said in his address to a joint session of Congress. “It’s time to halt the killing. It’s time to end this senseless war. Millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been needlessly killed or wounded in this horrific and brutal conflict, with no end in sight.”