Trump credits ‘The Stick’ for keeping the peace in Afghanistan during his

NEW: Donald Trump credits “The Stick” for keeping the peace in Afghanistan during his tenure.

But once Biden's disastrous withdrawal left 13 US soldiers dead, Trump says Putin felt emboldened to go into Ukraine.

DONALD TRUMP: “We went 18 months before this [disastrous withdrawal] happened, this horrible day happened, we went 18 months and nobody was shot at or killed.”

LEX FRIDMAN: “What do you think that was? The carrot or the stick in that case in Afghanistan?”

DONALD TRUMP: “The stick, definitely.”

LEX FRIDMAN: “The threat of military force. That was the stick?”

DONALD TRUMP: “Yeah. It doesn't have to be, but that was the stick.”