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Former President Donald Trump stated he believes the USA is now dealing with an unprecedented menace of nuclear battle.

The explosive commentary was made Monday throughout a cellphone interview with conservative radio discuss present host John Fredericks throughout a dialogue about this 12 months’s midterm main contests, specifically these set to happen Tuesday in Georgia, the 2024 presidential election, and the state of the nation underneath President Joe Biden.

“Our nation has in all probability by no means been worse than it’s proper now. I feel we’re within the best hazard ever of a nuclear battle,” Trump stated on Outdoors the Beltway.

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The final time nuclear weapons had been utilized in battle was by the U.S. towards Japan on the finish of World Struggle II. Nonetheless, there have been durations of considerably heightened tensions between nuclear powers since then, such because the Cuban missile disaster between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1962.

In the mean time, the U.S. and plenty of different Western nations have rallied behind Ukraine as its forces attempt to fend off an invasion by Russia, resulting in renewed apprehension about nuclear strikes of some selection. For example, former Joint Chiefs Chairman and retired Adm. Mike Mullen warned over the weekend that the U.S. ought to put together for the “chance” of Russia utilizing a nuclear weapon. There’s additionally the Biden White Home having to carry out cleanup obligation after the sitting president stated the U.S. army would defend Taiwan if China invaded.

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Fears of nuclear battle additionally popped up through the Trump administration. The present chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who additionally served underneath Trump, Gen. Mark Milley, warned army leaders that Trump may “go rogue” and took steps to safe the nuclear launch course of after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, in line with the 2021 guide Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of the Washington Publish. Whereas president, Trump additionally sought to rein in North Korea’s nuclear weapons program (after famously warning that threats by the hermit nation can be met with “hearth and fury”) and pulled the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal.

Trump stated Monday that he “by no means thought” the upcoming menace of nuclear battle would occur. “We’re within the best hazard of a nuclear battle the place it’s only a nice hazard,” he reiterated. “We’re not a revered nation anymore.”