Former President Donald Trump on March 25 predicted that Russian President Vladimir Putin would end up conquering all of Ukraine.
Trump made the comments during the first rally of his 2024 presidential campaign in Waco, Texas.
When the Russo-Ukrainian conflict escalated in February 2022, Trump said, Putin “wanted to get a piece” of Ukraine. “Now, it looks like he’ll end up getting the whole thing.”
Trump said that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine would not have happened if he had been president.
Trump also promised that if he were president, he would end the Russo-Ukrainian conflict “within 24 hours.”
To do this, Trump said he would look into funding and other financial ties between the United States, Russia, and Ukraine to force a compromise….