Nigel Farage: Russia Would Not Have Invaded Ukraine If Donald Trump Was President

GB News presenter Nigel Farage claimed that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump was president and that without him in the White House “the world is a much more dangerous place.”

The Brexiteer and long-time Trump ally was in Iowa for the state’s 2024 Republican presidential caucus, which the former president won on Monday.

Speaking to Sky News, Farage said he was confident that Trump would win the presidency in November and that claims he wants to destroy democracy are “nonsense.”

Farage told reporters: “I think the issue of the border, the result of crime problems that you’re seeing in American cities — Chicago is in a terrible, terrible state — I think people look at Trump and say, ‘you know what? This is a tough guy who will actually stand up and fight against that stuff.'”

“Plus, and don’t underestimate this, he had a very successful foreign policy when he was president. Since he’s gone, the world is now a much more dangerous place than it was before. So I think all these factors are playing for him.”

He continued: “There is this sort of argument in Europe that he will blow up NATO. I don’t believe any of that for a moment. What he wanted was for NATO members to pay their fair share. I don’t believe that Putin would have invaded Ukraine had Trump been in the White House.”

Farage’s advocacy comes as former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove commented that Trump’s return could potentially threaten UK’s national security.

After his Iowa Caucus victory on Monday, Trump remains a frontrunner as the Republican candidate despite the multiple ongoing legal cases against him.