Former US President Donald Trump criticized his successor Joe Biden for “obsessing over how to protect Ukraine’s border”, while accusing his administration of turning a blind eye to the crisis at the US’s own border with Ukraine. Mexico.
“Everyone in Washington is obsessed with how to secure the Ukraine border, but the most important border in the world right now for us is not the Ukraine border, it’s the United States border,” Trump told supporters at a rally. “Save America” in Conroe, Texas. on Saturday.
Citing record numbers of illegal immigrants arriving at the US-Mexico border, the former president likened the influx of people to an “invasion” that threatens US security. He went on to argue that Biden had already “surrendered” the US border, and “now the entire planet is pouring through it as if the United States had been defeated on the battlefield.”
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Trump spoke at the rally just a day after Biden told the media that US troops would be sent to Eastern Europe “in short order.” Earlier this week, the Pentagon had placed some 8,500 troops on “high alert” with a view to sending them to the region.
While the Pentagon ruled out the possibility of US military involvement in “combat operations” in Ukraine, senior US generals painted a bleak picture of the consequences of a possible full-blown conflict between Kiev and Moscow, warning of “horrible” consequences and “significant.” casualties,” even though Russia has consistently denied that it is planning to invade its neighbor.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has also tried to dismiss reports of an “imminent” invasion of Ukraine by Russia, pleading with Western media and politicians to stop causing unnecessary panic.