Mar 13, 2022: Former U.S President Donald Trump says the Ukraine conflict is ongoing and could escalate because the country has no one who can talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin under President Joe Biden.

Addressing attendees of a rally in Florence, South Carolina, Trump said, “Despite all of Biden’s weakness, cowardice and incompetence, there is still a path for him to end this tragedy in Ukraine, without getting Americans snared in a gruesome and very bloody war. By the way, this could lead to world war three,”

“This could lead to World War III,” Trump said during a rally in the state of South Carolina. “I see what’s happening. Because if you think Putin is going to stop, it’s going to get worse and worse. He’s not going to accept it and we don’t have anybody to talk to him.”

“We don’t have anybody to talk to him [Putin]. You had somebody to talk to him with me,” Trump said, emphasizing that “my personality is what kept us out of war.”

The former president suggested that Washington should threaten Moscow with “blistering consequences,” such as permanently eliminating Western dependence on Russian energy.

In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Western countries have rolled out a comprehensive sanctions campaign against Moscow, which includes airspace closures and restrictive measures targeting numerous Russian officials and entities, media, and financial institutions.

Russia said that the aim of its special operation is to “demilitarize” and “denazify” Ukraine and that only military infrastructure is being targeted. Moscow has repeatedly stressed that it has no plans to occupy Ukraine. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the goal is to protect the people of Donbas, “who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.”