WASHINGTON — President Trump’s dramatic pronouncement Tuesday that Russia is a “paper tiger” is based on new US intelligence that shows the Kremlin is spiraling toward economic ruin and battlefield defeat as a result of its invasion of Ukraine .

Meanwhile, Trump’s insistence in the same statement that Ukraine can regain all the land currently occupied by Russia is the president’s latest “strategic move” to try and bring Russia to the negotiating table, sources inside and outside the White House told The Post Wednesday.

Despite months of administration efforts and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s stated willingness to pursue peace talks, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has shown no interest in any truce — shunning overtures by Washington and Kyiv as his forces continue to st

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