Former US President Donald Trump said that if he were US President, the war in Ukraine would not have happened.
Former US President Donald Trump said that if he were US President, the war in Ukraine would not have happened.
He said so on Wednesday evening local time in the discussion program of the CNN news television, reports TASR. Trump responded with the mentioned words to a question from a Republican voter who asked him if he supports US military aid to Ukraine and also how he would deal with the threat posed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Give me 24 hours
“If I’m president, I’ll settle this war in one day, in 24 hours,” Trump said. He added that he would meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and also with Putin.
“Both have weaknesses and strengths, and within 24 hours this war will be resolved. It will end, it will be absolutely after her,” he added.
At the same time, the ex-president of the USA did not want to say whether he wanted Russia or Ukraine to win the war. “I don’t think in terms of winning and losing. I’m thinking in terms of settling it so we stop killing all those people,” he said. Asked repeatedly by the host of the CNN show, he added that he wished “everyone would stop dying.”
Is Putin a war criminal?
“I want both Russians and Ukrainians to stop dying,” he stated further. “And I can do that within 24 hours,” Trump added. However, when host Kaitlan Collins asked him a third time about who should win the war, he replied: “I will say this: I want Europe to give more money… They have a lot of money”.
In the talk show, Trump also did not want to say whether he considers Putin a war criminal. According to Trump, such a term is something that should be discussed “later.”
“If you say he’s a war criminal, it’s going to be a lot harder to get an agreement to stop this thing (the war),” he said, adding that as a “war criminal” he believed Putin would fight harder than under other circumstances, so the term should be considered later. At the same time, Trump believes that “Putin made a mistake.”
“His mistake was going there. He would never go there if I were president.” Trump added, referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to CNN.
Source: TASR
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