USA: Former US President Donald Trump has accused the State Department's "warmongers and 'America Last' globalists" of inciting conflict in Ukraine. If re-elected, Trump, who is vying for the presidency in 2024, vowed to purge Washington of "warmongers, frauds, and failures."

World War III has never been closer than it is now, according to a campaign video released by Donald Trump on Tuesday. He placed the blame on "all the warmongers and 'America Last' globalists in the Deep State, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the national security industrial complex."

The former president singled out Victoria Nuland as being "obsessed with pushing Ukraine towards NATO," according to the US deputy secretary of state for political affairs.

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In 2014, "uprisings" in Ukraine led to the removal of the democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, and the installation of the pro-Western Petro Poroshenko, who then launched a campaign of military repression against the people of Donetsk and Lugansk, according to Trump. Nuland and "others like her" at the State Department backed these "uprisings," he continued.

In 2014, Nuland met with rioters in Kiev and made military aid and a billion-dollar loan guarantee programme promises to pro-Western politicians. In a notoriously leaked conversation, Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt—the US's then-ambassador to Ukraine—discussed which opposition politician should take Yanukovych's place.

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As he has stated numerous times over the past year, Trump asserted that if he were president, the conflict in Ukraine "wouldnever have happened."

We need to get rid of the corrupt globalist establishment that has blown every significant foreign policy decision for decades, he continued, adding that "I was the only president who rejected the catastrophic advice of many of Washington's generals, bureaucrats, and so-called diplomats who only know how to get us into conflicts."

By the end of my administration, the State Department, Pentagon, and national security establishment, according to Trump, "the warmongers, frauds, and failures in the senior ranks of our government will all be gone."

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Trump's 2016 platform included opposition to America's "forever wars" as a central theme. Trump was criticised by his supporters for briefly appointing renowned war-hawk John Bolton as his national security adviser and for authorising missile strikes on Syria, despite the fact that he was the first president in decades to refrain from drawing the US into a new international conflict.

While President Joe Biden has promised to provide Kiev with weapons indefinitely, Trump claims that if elected, he would call Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and "have a deal made in 24 hours."