United States: Former US President Donald Trump has suggested that Washington's decision to send M1 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine could move the world closer to a nuclear exchange.

"Tanks come first, then nukes. End this war immediately. On Thursday, Trump posted a message on his social media platform Truth Social that read," So easy to do.

The 45th president has said in the past that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine would not have happened if he were still in office.

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In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Republican Congressman Troy Nihls suggested that President Joe Biden should call Trump and that Trump could then call Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nehls declared, "We must end this war, and Donald Trump can do it.

Nehls said that instead of providing additional military aid to Kyiv, the US should focus on other global crises as well as domestic problems because the Abrams tanks "require an enormous amount of logistical support." We are running out of ammunition. Years would pass before the industry caught up.

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On Wednesday, Biden announced plans to send 31 tanks to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Britain promised to deliver 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine. In addition to allowing Poland and other European countries to give Ukraine their own Leopard 2A6 tanks, Germany agreed to send 14 of them.

Moscow has argued that bringing in foreign weapons would not change the momentum of the conflict and would instead cause more casualties. This month, Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, issued a warning that any tanks supplied by the West would be "burned" on the battlefield.

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According to Maxim Buyakevich, Russia's deputy envoy to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the US and other NATO members are "deliberately exacerbating the military standoff" with Moscow.