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12:18 16.06.2025 •
President Donald Trump told ABC News that "it's possible we could get involved" in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran.
The president made the comments to ABC News' Rachel Scott. He also reiterated that the U.S. is "not at this moment involved" in the conflict.
Trump also said that he would be "open" to Russian President Vladimir Putin being a mediator in the conflict. "He is ready. He called me about it. We had a long talk about it, " Trump said.
“Look, there’s a chance of massive conflict,” Trump said. “We have a lot of American people in this area, and I said, we’ve got to tell them to get out, because something could happen soon, and I don’t want to be the one that didn’t give any warning and missiles are flying.”
Top Pentagon officials have been divided over the extent of US military support for Israel, a split whose resolution will shape President Donald Trump’s second-term foreign policy.
US military leaders, including the chief of US Central Command, Gen. Michael Kurilla, have requested more resources to support and defend Israel. But their requests have drawn resistance from undersecretary of defense for policy Elbridge Colby, who has long opposed moving US military assets from Asia to the Middle East, people sympathetic to each side of the argument told Semafor.
The surprise attack on Tehran raised the stakes in a long-running internal dispute, whose stakes could increase as Israel’s need for support grows in response to Iranian retaliation.
Colby has long argued that moves like the missile relocation would imperil US military readiness in a possible conflict with China or North Korea. And Trump — despite his administration’s ongoing assistance to Israel — has at times bridled at the appearance of close US coordination. Former National Security Adviser Mike Waltz was pushed out, in part, over his “intense coordination” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Washington Post reported in May.
And Colby is “so focused on Asia, he’s gotten crosswise with anyone who does anything else on foreign policy, including Trump loyalists,” one Capitol Hill aide who favors more support of Israel said.
The Pentagon has not said whether it will send a second carrier group to the Middle East. But the US Embassy in Hanoi announced Friday that it was canceling a visit by the USS Nimitz “due to an emergent operational requirement,” according to a German think tank official and others who posted the announcement.
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