Former president Donald Trump recently criticized the United States for “saying exactly the wrong thing” to Russia following current President Joe Biden’s remarks on the “prospect of Armageddon” amid Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent threats of nuclear war, according to a report from The Hill.
Trump said that Biden and his administration should be pushing Russia and Ukraine to for a peaceful resolution and warning that otherwise, the conflict could be heading toward “World War III.”
During a weekend rally in Arizona, Trump said:
“And now we have a war between Russia and Ukraine with potentially hundreds of thousands of people dying. We must demand immediate negotiation of a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine, or we will end up in World War III and there will never be a war like this.”
He continued:
“We must demand immediate negotiation of a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine, or we will end up in World War III and there will never be a war like this. We will never have had a war like this and that’s all because of stupid people that don’t have a clue. And it’s also because of the kind of weaponry that’s available today.”
Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ruled out peace talks after Russia declared the annexation of four occupied territories in his country.
According to The Hill, “Many security experts and former military officials agree with Biden’s assessment that Putin’s nuclear threats should be taken seriously, however, his comments stirred debate over whether the White House should be issuing such dire warnings.”
Officials in the U.S. have said there are currently no signs that Russia is preparing for an imminent nuclear attack, and also that America’s military has not changed its posture on the threat of nuclear war, with White House national security spokesman John Kirby saying that Biden was “accurately reflecting the fact that the stakes are very high right now.”