Donald Trump told Axios during a five-minute phone call that “the war is going great” and that it will end “soon” because the US armed forces are running out of targets to bomb.
“There's still a little bit of this and that left. (…) The war will end whenever I want, said the president. — The war is going great. We are ahead of schedule. “We did more damage than we thought was possible, even in the original six-week period,” he added.
Trump initially said the war plan was to last four weeks. But then he added that it might last four or five weeks.
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Trump's unclear statements about the end of the war
On Monday, the president told CBS that the war was “virtually over,” although two hours later he announced in a speech that it would not end until Washington achieved all of its goals and the threat from Iran was eliminated “once and for all.” Trump emphasized that the war would end soon, but also claimed it wouldn't be this week.
In an interview with Axios, Trump argued that Iran wanted to take over the entire Middle East. — They are paying for the 47 years of death and destruction they have caused. It's revenge. They won't get away with this, he declared.
Axios recalled that Israeli Defense Minister Israel Kac announced that the war would continue “without any time limit, for as long as necessary, until we achieve all the goals and win the campaign decisively.”
