Former US President Donald Trump has warned of a ‘world disaster’ following Iran’s devastating missile attack on Israel.
This comes as tensions rise in the Middle East, with Iran firing almost 200 ballistic missiles at Israeli land overnight, and the Israeli military contemplating a’significant reprisal’ to the horrifying strike.
Following the incident, Trump, 78, slammed US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, describing the situation as’very close to world catastrophe’.
“I’ve been talking about World War III for a long time, and I don’t want to make predictions because the predictions always come true,” Trump said.
“We’re not going to make predictions but they are very close to global catastrophe.
“We have a non-existent president and a non-existent vice president who should be in charge, but nobody knows what’s going on, she was at a fundraiser in San Francisco,” he added.
During a press conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Republican presidential contender also compared the current tension between Israel and Iran to ‘two kids fighting in the schoolyard’.
“This has been really bad but they have to finish that process, however it turns out,” Trump said.
“This is a little bit like two kids fighting in the schoolyard, sometimes you just sort of let it go a little bit and we’ll see what happens.”
Trump said Sunday night’s incident should never have occurred, and that the United States will remain deeply involved in the Middle East.
“It’s a horrible, horrible war,” he said, “and then you see what’s happening even today, when is that going to stop?
“You look at these forces, they shot down almost 200 rokets today, but this is not the way anybody should have to live, so we’re obviously going to be very involved in the Middle East.”
Trump also stated that when he was president of the United States, there was no Middle East war and “Iran was in total check.”
“They were starved for cash, fully contained, and desperate to make a deal. Kamala flooded them with American cash and, ever since, they have been exporting terror all over,” he said.
“Under ‘President Trump,’ we had no war in the Middle East, no war in Europe, and Harmony in Asia, no inflation, no Afghanistan catastrophe,” he added.
The former US president further claimed that the two ‘incompetents controlling this country are dragging the US to the brink of World war III, a conflict unlike any other.
“This is what the policies of weakness and appeasement have brought to the world,” he said.
Iran unleashed a barrage of rockets at Israel on Tuesday in response to the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah the previous week.
The assault, which lasted about an hour, occurred immediately after the United States warned that an attack was impending.
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