"I think that the Middle East is an easier problem to handle than what's happening with Russia and Ukraine," US president-elect Donald Trump said in an interview to Time magazine.
"I just want to say that upfront. The Middle East is going to be solved. The Middle East has been—it's a horrible thing. October 7 was a horrible thing. Everyone is forgetting conveniently about October 7, but that was a horrible day for the world, not for Israel, for the world. And I think the Middle East is going to get—as we speak, things are happening very productively in the Middle East. I think the Middle East is going to get solved. I think it's more complicated than the Russia-Ukraine, but I think it's easier to solve,"