- Tuesday, April 23, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
Former US president Donald Trump has said that he could end the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict “within 24 hours” by presiding over peace talks.
The one-time president, who will run for the top post in next year’s presidential election, said this during an interview to Fox News but “refused” to explain how he would carry it out.
The 76-year-old temperamental leader said that if the war did not come to an end by the 2024 presidential polls and if he is re-elected to the White House, he would “within one day” have a peace settlement in place.
He also told the channel that the talks between Russian president Vladimir Putin, his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky and himself would be “easy”.
“If it’s not solved, I will have it solved in 24 hours with Zelensky and with Putin, and there’s a very easy negotiation to take place, but I don’t want to tell you what it is because then I can’t use that negotiation,” the Republican leader was quoted as saying.
“But there’s a very easy negotiation to take place. I will have it solved within one day, a peace between them,” he added.
Trump, who defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election but lost to Joe Biden in 2020, said the negotiations will not kick off for a “year and a half”, adding “that’s a long time”.
He also said that there is a possibility that the war may get worse in the meantime.
Warning about a “nuclear world war”, Trump said in the interview, “If this thing isn’t solved by the time we have the election – which it’s possible it won’t be, and it’s also possible we’ll be in World War Three with these idiots that are doing what they’re doing- you could end up in a nuclear world war which will make World War I and World War II look like patty cakes.”
Discussing his good relation with Putin, Trump also said that the conflict would not have happened had he been re-elected in 2020.
The Ukraine war started on February 24, 2022, when Russia invaded that country.
