British Ambassador to U.S. Peter Mandelson said Tuesday that President Trump "got it right" when he accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of having gone “absolutely” crazy in weekend social media posts.

Speaking at the 2025 Christopher J. Makins Lecture at the Atlantic Council, Mandelson added that both Trump and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and others are "right" to be looking to the possibility of added pressure on Putin to bring him to the negotiating table.

"I mean crazy in his indifference to international opinion, crazy in his disrespect to the President of the United States and what he's trying to do bring peace but notably gone crazy in the continuing death and destruction that he is visiting upon Ukraine........

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