US President-elect Donald Trump made a number of controversial statements on Sunday that clearly reflect the extent of the difference in US domestic and foreign policies with outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden.

On the foreign policy front, Trump said he would stop what he described as chaos in the Middle East, stop the war in Ukraine, and prevent the outbreak of World War III, without explaining how he would do all of that.

Trump reiterated his previous statement that the events of October 7 (Operation Flood of the North) and the war between Russia and Ukraine would not have happened if he were President of the United States.

Since October 7, Israel has been waging a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, with full American support, in which more than 153,000 Palestinians have been killed and injured, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 have gone missing, amidst massive destruction and famine that has killed dozens of children and elderly people.

Trump threatened earlier this month that if the captives in the Gaza Strip were not released before his inauguration on January 20, there would be “hell” in the Middle East, saying officials would be “hit harder than anyone in the long and storied history of the United States of America has ever been hit. Release the captives now.”