John Bolton: Trump Election Is Not Just Bad News for Ukraine, It’s Bad News All Around the World

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BOLTON: "Well, in the short term, I've been worried for some time that Vladimir Putin would get up one day and say, you know, this war has gone on long enough, let's have a ceasefire in place and start negotiating, which of course, is what the Biden administration would love to do. That's -- that's their preferred outcome. But it would give Russia a new de facto boundary that would rapidly become permanent Ukraine, I think Europe would fade away. I think -- I think this is a very dangerous time for Ukraine. If Trump gets in, what he has said on the campaign trail is he'll get Zelenskyy and Putin in a room together and resolve the matter in 24 hours. Now, that's another silly statement from Trump. That won't happen. And when it fails, Trump will have to find somebody to blame. Obviously, it won't be his fault. So it'll be one of the other two, and I think the eyes are almost 100:1 that it would be Zelenskyy. Putin would welcome that. This -- a Trump election is not just bad news for Ukraine, it's bad news all around the world because that approach, his withdraw from NATO, if he does it, and I think he will, will encourage the leaders in Beijing and elsewhere to take advantage of it."