It's not American lives. Now, I would say this. That war could have escalated in something much better. That could have been a world war. I think if we didn't come, Ukraine, Russia would have ended up being a world war. And I stopped that. That stopped. Now the only question is, when is it going to be settled? And it could be very soon, but when is it going to be? (20:19–20:28)
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Asserts that his involvement prevented the Ukraine-Russia conflict from escalating into a world war.
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