Former President Donald Trump has issued a statement regarding the deteriorating security situation between Russia and Ukraine, explaining why he doesn’t believe President Vladimir Putin would have sent forces into the neighboring country if he had won reelection.
“If properly handled, there was absolutely no reason that the situation currently happening in Ukraine should have happened at all,” Trump said Tuesday following reports that thousands of Russian forces acting as “peacekeepers” entered eastern Ukraine after Putin officially recognized to breakaway regions as new ‘republics.’
“If properly handled, there was absolutely no reason that the situation currently happening in Ukraine should have happened at all,” Trump continued, going on to lash out at President Joe Biden’s “weak sanctions.”
“The weak sanctions are insignificant relative to taking over a country and a massive piece of strategically located land. Now it has begun, oil prices are going higher and higher, and Putin is not only getting what he always wanted, but getting, because of the oil and gas surge, richer and richer,” the former president said.
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