Former President Donald Trump was applauded loudly as he described his plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine at a town hall discussion with Sean Hannity of Fox News in Iowa.
Trump has pledged to resolve the conflict “in 24 hours,” citing his cordial friendships with Vladimir Putin of Russia and Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. “So I know Zelensky very well because he was very honorable with the fake phone call impeachment hoax number one. They said I made a phone call to him and I was very threatening. I wasn’t at all. I was actually very nice,” Trump said. “I was congratulating him on a victory. But when they asked him they said, ‘did you were you threatened?’ He didn’t even know what they were talking about. He was very honorable. He could have done grandstanding, said, ‘I felt threatened, I felt threatened.’ He didn’t do that.”
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Additionally, the GOP front-runner and former president claimed that he got along “very well” with Vladimir Putin. “I would tell Putin, you got to settle. I would tell Zelensky, you got to settle. I would tell one, you’re going to load up with money. I’d tell the other, you’re not going to get any money. I would get a settlement in 24 hours,” he said.
Trump continued to advocate for a peaceful resolution to the war rather than continuing to support the Ukrainian government indefinitely, a position that has been taken by a number of Republican presidential candidates. “You have thousands, hundreds of thousands of dead people right now, hundreds of thousands. You have cities that are obliterated. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the cities after they finished with the rockets. You have cities with no buildings standing. It looks like just a demolition zone. It’s so horrible. And you know, and then they’ll say two people were hurt. No, hundreds of people and thousands of people were killed,” Trump said.
” These cities are being obliterated and basically they say, what’s your stance? Are you for Russia or are you for… I’m for one thing very simple. I want to stop people from getting killed and I’ll have it stopped fast. I want to stop people from getting killed and I’ll have it stopped fast,” He proceeded, eliciting a huge roar from the audience.
President Biden and lawmakers from various political parties have stated that they think that engaging in peace talks would give legitimacy to Russia’s incursion. President Biden has decided to arm the Ukrainian government with cutting-edge weapons like F-16 fighter planes and cluster bombs rather than taking this course. These measures fuel worries about the possibility of a nuclear battle with Russia escalating.
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Nearly all Democrats and some elected Republicans, including Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), have backed this approach. Additionally, a number of Republican presidential candidates, notably Mike Pence and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), have advocated ongoing support for the Ukrainian military. Scott recently stated on Tucker Carlson that “degrading the Russian military” is crucial to American national security.
