Donald Trump said yesterday that we’re ‘on the brink of world war three’ after a suicide drone killed three US soldiers and injured a further 34 in Jordan. ‘This attack would never have happened if I was president, not even a chance – just like the Iranian-backed Hamas attack on Israel would never have happened, the war in Ukraine would never have happened, and we would now have peace throughout the world,’ said Trump. ‘Our country cannot survive with Joe Biden as Commander in Chief.’
It’s cynical, of course, to score political points over military deaths. Yesterday’s US combat fatalities were reportedly the first in three years under Joe Biden. Some 45 servicemen were killed in the war in Afghanistan under Donald Trump – a conflict Joe Biden ended in 2021.
Americans are comparing Trump’s record of relative success with Biden’s three years of growing instability
But Trump is not necessarily wrong to point out that the world has become more unstable under Biden.
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