Trump claims he has plan ‘guaranteed’ to end Ukraine war
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Trump said the Ukraine crisis could spiral into “a third world war”.
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WASHINGTON - Donald Trump said on Sept 3 that he has plans that are “guaranteed” to end the deadly war in Ukraine, but will only reveal them if he wins the US presidential election in November.
The former US president and current Republican nominee is locked in a neck-and-neck race with his Democratic rival, Vice-President Kamala Harris.
“If I win, as president-elect, I’ll have a deal made, guaranteed. That’s a war that shouldn’t have happened,” Trump said on the Lex Fridman podcast released on Sept 3.
“I have a very exacting plan how to stop Ukraine and Russia, and I have a certain idea – maybe not a plan, but an idea – for China,” he added.
“But I can’t give you those plans, because if I give you those plans, I’m not going to be able to use them, they’ll be very unsuccessful. You know, part of it’s surprise, right?“
The comments echo the move by Trump loyalists in Congress earlier in 2024, when they tanked a bipartisan immigration plan, reportedly because they did not want the Biden-Harris administration to earn credit on one of the 2024 election’s biggest issues.
Kyiv and Moscow are bogged down in a war that began in early 2022
Thousands of soldiers and civilians have died, and the West has slapped punitive economic sanctions on Moscow over its invasion.
Trump has faced criticism for repeatedly praising Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On the podcast, he said the Ukraine crisis could spiral into “a third world war”, and that several global hot spots are boiling because “America has no leadership”.
Ms Harris for her part has called out Trump’s public praise of Mr Putin, telling the Democratic National Convention in August that “I will not cozy up to tyrants and dictators” and that as president, she would “stand strong with Ukraine”. AFP
