Steve Bannon warns of world conflict that could be 'Trump's Vietnam'

President-elect Donald Trump's erstwhile main strategist, Steve Bannon, reportedly is informing of an impending satellite struggle that could equate to "Trump's Vietnam." 

The "War Room" big has been utilizing his regular vigor amusement and podcast to advocator that Trump marque an announcement connected "Day One" that helium volition extremity the warfare successful Ukraine quickly. 

In an interrogation with Politico, Bannon said helium is aggressively urging that Trump bash truthful successful his Inauguration Day speech, informing that the soon-to-be 47th president could beryllium entrapped by the U.S. defence industry, the Europeans and adjacent immoderate of Bannon’s ain friends, who helium says person teamed up to propulsion the United States to proceed sending subject assistance to Ukraine. That includes Keith Kellogg, a retired U.S. wide who Trump tapped to go peculiar envoy to Ukraine and Russia. 

Though friends, Bannon says Kellogg is misguided successful pushing that the U.S. proceed sending assistance to Ukraine portion an statement is sorted that includes information guarantees that marque definite Russia volition not motorboat different invasion. 

A further hold successful ending the three-year conflict, Bannon countered, risks the United States being pulled deeper into a warfare that cannot beryllium won and runs antagonistic to American nationalist interests.

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"If we aren’t careful, it volition crook into Trump’s Vietnam," Bannon said. "That’s what happened to Richard Nixon. He ended up owning the war, and it went down arsenic his war, not Lyndon Johnson’s." 

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon astatine Turning Point's yearly AmericaFest 2024 successful Phoenix, Arizona, connected Dec. 21, 2024.  (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

"I’m going nuts close present to marque definite there’s thing connected Monday, an announcement," helium added. "Because you person Kellogg saying it volition instrumentality 100 days, the aged overseas argumentation constitution are saying six months." 

Bannon reportedly said Trump indispensable pass to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that "there’s a caller sheriff successful town, and we’re going to get a woody done, and we’re going to get it done quickly." 

He added that Zelenskyy ought to wage attraction to however Trump pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into accepting the presumption of a cease-fire and hostage merchandise woody with Hamas earlier the president-elect takes office.

Bannon lamented to Politico however helium views NATO arsenic having morphed into much of an American protectorate than an alliance. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a gathering with Finland´s Minister of Foreign Affairs Elina Valtonen successful Kyiv connected Jan. 8, 2025.  (Geya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images)

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"If you look astatine NATO, I don’t deliberation it tin enactment unneurotic 2 combat divisions of Europeans that are acceptable to fight," Bannon said. "Europe has gotten distant with aboriginal status and afloat wellness attraction due to the fact that they don’t wage for their ain defense." 

As for Russian person Vladimir Putin, Bannon continued, "Putin’s a atrocious guy. He’s a precise atrocious guy. The KGB are atrocious guys. But I don’t enactment up astatine nighttime worrying astir Russian power connected Europe." 

Lt Gen. Keith Kellogg, erstwhile National Security Advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, speaks astatine the Trans-Atlantic league successful Auvers-sur-Oise, northbound of Paris, regarding a caller strategical attack toward Iran connected Jan. 11, 2025.  (Siavosh Hosseini/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Number 1, their subject hasn’t adjacent got to Kyiv. In 3 years, they couldn’t get there," Bannon said. "They haven’t taken Kharkiv even. You cognize wherefore I don’t enactment awake astatine night? Because the Europeans don’t enactment awake astatine night. They don’t see Russia a existent threat. If they did, they would propulsion a batch much wealth and troops into the game." 

Bannon, who said helium supports Trump's proposals for the U.S. to summation power of Greenland and the Panama Canal, some successful his eyes important to U.S. nationalist security, past turned backmost to Europe. 

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He called erstwhile British Conservative person Boris Johnson a "war criminal," adding that helium believes excessively galore European leaders see themselves the Winston Churchill of their day. "The Ukraine warfare is the cardinal screw-up of Europe implicit the past mates of years," Bannon told Politico. "You person a cardinal dormant oregon wounded Ukrainians. And we’re going to extremity up, champion case, we’re going to extremity up precisely wherever this happening started, arsenic I said 3 years ago. And it’s due to the fact that you person Boris Johnson and [French President Emmanuel] Macron, each these fantasists that won’t wage for their ain defense. They privation to beryllium large shots. They each privation to beryllium Winston Churchill with different people’s wealth and different people’s lives."