NILE GARDINER: Donald Trump is our best hope of averting World War III

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : That leaves Trump with all the power.
61% : Trump understands all this, and he recognises that the U.S. is the only superpower on Earth with the clout to prevent it.
46% : So does Trump - and he will be aware that the best way to weaken Putin will be to restore peace.
45% : Many of Europe's leaders oppose Trump ideologically, but there's no doubt he knows how to seal a deal to his advantage, and to America's, which will ultimately benefit the whole planet.- Nile Gardiner is a former aide to Margaret Thatcher
39% : He sees Trump as a far more effective and powerful adversary, particularly now the returning President has an emphatic mandate from voters - with a majority in the Senate and the House, and all serious threats of legal action against him likely to evaporate.
38% : Tragic though it is, Ukraine faces a very daunting task in winning all the territory back that it has lost to Russia since 2014It's essential for future peace that Putin cannot be allowed to annex more of Ukraine, and Trump is only too well aware of how the Kursk region of Russia, where Kyiv has made a significant incursion, can be used by Zelensky as a bargaining chip in any peace deal.
37% : It's highly unlikely that Russia would have dared march on Kyiv in 2022 if Trump had been in power.
36% : They are unlikely to be a game-changer and have without doubt created a more dangerous situation for Trump to inherit.
17% : He would not have allowed Iran to become the international bully-boy state it is today, just as he slapped down North Korea when Kim Jong-Un (the man Trump dubbed 'little rocket man') began test firing missiles in the direction of America.

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