I will get it settled before I even become president, if I win, when I'm president elect. And what I'll do is I'll speak to one, I'll speak to the other. I'll get them together. That war would have never happened. And in fact, when I saw Putin after I left, unfortunately left because our country has gone to hell. But after I left, when I saw him building up soldiers, he did it. (1:03:32–1:03:35)
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Asserts that the Russia-Ukraine war would not have occurred if he were president.
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