Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised on Thursday to bring an end to raging international crises and restore American prestige on the world stage, saying he could stop wars with a telephone call.
The former president sought to paint a dire picture of the world under his successor Joe Biden, telling the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee that the planet is teetering on the edge of World War III.
Trump placed the blame for conflicts around the world squarely on Biden but vowed to change all that if he is elected to a second term in the White House.
He pledged to build a version of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system for the United States, ignoring the fact that the system is designed for short-range threats and would be ill-suited to defending against intercontinental missiles that are the main danger to the country.
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