Former US President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that the State Department under the Obama administration backed the 2014 uprisings in Ukraine.

Speaking in a video, in which he said "World War III has never been closer than it is right now," Trump vowed to "clean house of all of the warmongers and America's last globalists."

The February 2014 “Maidan revolution” in Ukraine led to then President Viktor Yanukovych fleeing the country and a pro-Western government coming to power.

In November of the previous year, Yanukovych announced the suspension of preparations for a historic pact between Kyiv and Brussels aimed at shifting Ukraine out of Moscow’s orbit and refused to sign a trade pact and political association agreement with the European Union. After the decision, mass street protests erupted in Ukraine.

Trump reiterated that he was the only president in generations who did not start a war and the only president "who rejected the catastrophic advice of many of Washington's generals, bureaucrats and the so-called diplomats who only know how to get us into conflict, but they don't know how to get us out.”

"For decades, we've had the very same people, such as (current Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs) Victoria Nuland and many others just like her obsessed with pushing Ukraine toward NATO, not to mention the State Department support for uprisings in Ukraine.

"These people have been seeking confrontation for a long time, much like the case in Iraq and other parts of the world. And now, we're teetering on the brink of World War Three," he added.

Trump also said a future administration under him could end the war in Ukraine in one day.

"We could end the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours with the right leadership. At the end of my next four years, the warmongers, frauds and failures of the senior ranks of our government will all be gone," he said.

Source: Anadolu Agency