'I Talked To Him About It...': Trump Says Putin 'Would Never Have Invaded' If He Was President

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During Thursday Night's CNN Presidential Debate, former President Donald Trump was asked about the war in Ukraine, and Putin's terms for ending the war.

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00:00Thank you so much.

00:01Let's move to the topic of foreign policy.

00:03I want to begin with Russia's war against Ukraine, which is now in its third year.

00:09Former President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin says he'll only end this war

00:15if Russia keeps the Ukrainian territory it has already claimed and Ukraine abandons its

00:21bid to join NATO.

00:23Are Putin's terms acceptable to you?

00:26First of all, our veterans and our soldiers can't stand this guy.

00:30They can't stand him.

00:32They think he's the worst commander in chief, if that's what you call him, that we've ever

00:36had.

00:37They can't stand him.

00:38So let's get that straight.

00:39And they like me more than just about any of them.

00:42And that's based on every single bit of information.

00:45As far as Russia and Ukraine, if we had a real president, the president that knew, that

00:50was respected by Putin, he would have never he would have never invaded Ukraine.

00:55A lot of people are dead right now, much more than people know.

00:58You know, they talk about numbers.

01:00You can double those numbers, maybe triple those numbers.

01:03He did nothing to stop it.

01:04In fact, I think he encouraged Russia from going in.

01:07I'll tell you what happened.

01:08He was so bad with Afghanistan.

01:09It was such a horrible embarrassment, most embarrassing moment in the history of our

01:14country that when Putin watched that and he saw the incompetence that he should, he should

01:18have fired those generals like I fired the one that you mentioned.

01:22And so he's got no love loss, but he should have fired those generals.

01:25No general got fired for the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, Afghanistan,

01:32where we left billions of dollars of equipment behind.

01:35We lost 13 beautiful soldiers and 38 soldiers were obliterated.

01:39And by the way, we left people behind, too.

01:41We left American citizens behind.

01:43When Putin saw that, he said, you know what, I think we're going to go in and maybe take

01:47my.

01:48This is his dream.

01:49I talked to him about his dream.

01:51The difference is he never would have invaded Ukraine, never just like Israel would have

01:57never been invaded in a million years by Hamas.

02:02You know why?

02:04Because Iran was broke with me.

02:05I wouldn't let anybody do business with them.

02:07They ran out of money.

02:08They were broke.

02:09They had no money for Hamas.

02:10They had no money for anything, no money for terror.

02:13That's why you had no terror at all during my administration.

02:17This place, the whole world is blowing up under him.

'I Talked To Him About It...': Trump Says Putin 'Would Never Have Invaded' If He Was President

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