(*24*)Former President Donald Trump wildly claimed on Monday that he could resolve the war in Ukraine “inside 24 hours” of conducting peace negotiations, but declined to reveal how.
(*24*)Trump, 76, commented with raised eyebrows in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity that aired Monday night. The previous president said that if the war will not be over by the 2024 presidential election and he’s re-elected to the White House, “inside sooner or later” he will have a peace deal.
(*24*)Trump argued that negotiations between him, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin can be “easy”.
(*24*)”If this is not resolved, I’ll settle it inside 24 hours with Zelensky and Putin, and it’s totally easy to barter, but I don’t desire to tell you what it’s because then I cannot use it in negotiations,” Trump promised, without even implying what will be his negotiating strategy.
(*24*)“But negotiating may be very easy. I will solve it in sooner or later, peace between them,” he repeated.
(*24*)Trump said his alleged future negotiations wouldn’t happen for an additional “12 months and a half”, saying “that is a protracted time” and noting that the war could get much worse in the meantime.
(*24*)”If this matter will not be resolved by the time of the election – and it’s possible that it won’t be, and it is also possible that we’ll be in a 3rd world war with these idiots doing what they’re doing – you could end up with a nuclear world war that will make World War I and World War II seem like potato pancakes,” Trump warned.
(*24*)The previous commander-in-chief also claimed, as he has repeatedly said, that he “got along thoroughly with Putin” and that the Russian invasion of Ukraine would never have happened had he been re-elected president in 2020.
(*24*)Trump told Fox News host Tucker Carlson earlier this month that opposing Russia in Ukraine will not be a significant U.S. strategic interest, but it’s for Europe.
(*24*)”That is why Europe should pay way more than us, or the same,” Trump argued.