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As the weak and incompetent Biden administration continues to embarrass itself on the world stage, many Americans seem more interested in the response from a real president — former commander-in-chief Donald Trump.
When asked if he had a message to Putin, the former president said: “I have no message.”
“It is a horrible thing. It would never have happened under any circumstance,” Trump said about the situation if he were still president.
“Never would have happened with us,” Trump emphasized. “Had I been in office, not even thinkable. This would never have happened.”
Trump described Biden as “a man that has no concept of what he’s doing.”
“It is what it is,” Trump continued. “But there’s great bravery being shown, and I think they’re doing one hell of a job—much more so than anybody would have thought possible.”
Trump noted that Russia’s multi-front invasion in Ukraine could lead to “world war.”
He argued the Biden administration is going to have to “do a lot more than just sanctions” to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I just think it’s a shame that this is going on. It’s something that should not be going on,” Trump said.
“Thousands of people, I mean, this can lead to much bigger than this one area,” Trump warned. “This could lead to a lot of other countries and can lead to world war.”
Trump said “you never know how it starts, in a world war.”
“You never think a war is going to come out of it,” he continued. “All of a sudden, you end up in a world war.”
“This is a very dangerous period for our nation, for the country.”
Reacting to the sanctions, Trump said, “They’re going to have to do more than just sanctions, I suspect.”
“But sanctions are not, you know, Putin—he understands how to avoid sanctions, and he goes through other countries,” Trump told Fox News Digital. “He goes to China as an example.”
Trump said the sanctions “have to be strong, and they have to be swift, OK, to use a word, because that is a very powerful sanction, as you know, SWIFT.”
“And if they’re not, I can’t imagine—it’s just going to be a question of time,” Trump said. “It’s a very ugly thing that’s taking place. Should have never happened.”
Trump said China has been emboldened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“I do. I think that China would do that anyway,” he said about China’s aspirations to take Taiwan.
In response to Afghanistan, Trump said, “Getting out was a good thing. I had it down to two thousand soldiers.”
“We were going to get out with strength and dignity, but to take the soldiers, the great Army out first— we took our Army and Marines—we took them out first to do that and leave the Americans behind, leave other people behind, leave $85 billion worth of equipment behind.”
“We had 13 young people that were killed, many that were very badly hurt in the bombing and a couple of other things the way they got out,” Trump said.
“I really think that was the most embarrassing—one of the lowest points in the history of our country,” Trump said. “And President Xi and Putin, they watched that, and I think they probably came up with ideas that they didn’t have before seeing it, because it was grossly incompetent.”
