President Donald Trump announced with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that America will arm Ukraine in its war with Russia.
However, Trump will sell the equipment to NATO, and the countries will distribute it to Ukraine.
“Mark will speak about it, but we’ve made a deal today where we are going to be sending them weapons and they’re going to be paying for them,” said Trump. “We, the United States, will not be having any payment made. We’re not buying it, but we will manufacture it, and they’re going to be paying for it.”
Rutte agreed that it makes sense for Europe to purchase the weapons:
This is really big. You called me on Thursday that you have taken a decision. And a decision is that you want to bring what it needs to have to maintain to be able to defend itself [Ukraine] against Russia, but you do want Europeans to pay for it, which is totally logical.And this is building on the tremendous success of the NATO Summit, the 5% but also the decision to keep Ukraine strong and the decision to increase our defense industrial production. So based on that, this is, that was Europe stepping up. This is again, Europeans stepping up.So I’ve been in contact with many countries, I can tell you at this moment, Germany, massively, but also Finland and Denmark and Sweden and Norway they have taken the Netherlands, Canada, they all want to be part of this and this is only the first wave that will be more.
A reporter asked, “Could this transaction with NATO be viewed as a step towards achieving peace, letting Putin know that now Zelenskyy has a little bit more powerful tools in his tool chest, and maybe that brings him to the table to achieve peace?”
Trump complimented the reporter on the question and how he worded it!
But yes, Trump thinks selling the weapons could end the war:
Yeah, I think this is a chance of getting peace, or it’s just going to be the same thing. I have to tell you, Europe has a lot of spirit for this war. Lot of people, you know, when I first got involved, I really didn’t think they did, but they do, and I saw that a month ago. And then you were there, most of you, many of you were there. The level of spirit that they have is amazing. They really think it’s a very, very important thing to do, or they wouldn’t be doing.Look, they’re agreeing to just, you know, they’re paying for everything. We’re not paying anywhere we were. We have an ocean separating us. I said, we have a problem. We make the best stuff, but we can’t keep doing this.And Biden should have done this years ago. He should have done it from the beginning, but he didn’t. He didn’t know he was there. This guy wanted what, what a horrible job they did for this country. And I just hope, between the border and this and so many other, inflation, what a horrible administration, the worst administration in history, in my opinion, it’s not my opinion. I think it’s everybody’s opinion.But this is something that shouldn’t have happened and we’re going to see if we can end it.
It is better than throwing money at Ukraine.
Plus, Trump made the correct choice to sign a rare minerals deal with Ukraine.
The rare minerals deal means we have an economic interest in Ukraine, something that actually affects America.
Trump also told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he has 50 days to reach a peace deal with Ukraine or else the country faces 100% tariffs:
But we’re very, very unhappy with them [Russia], and we’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days, tariffs at about 100% you’d call them secondary tariffs. You know what that means.But today we’re going to talk about something else. And as you know, we’ve spent $350 billion approximately, on this war with Russia and Ukraine, and would like to see it end. It wasn’t my war. It was Biden’s war. It’s not my war. I’m trying to get you out of it, and we want to see it end. And I’m disappointed in President Putin, because I thought we would have had a deal two months ago, but it doesn’t seem to get there.So based on that, we’re going to be doing secondary tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days. It’s very simple, and they’ll be at 100% for and that’s the way it is, that can be more simple, it’s just the way it is. I hope we don’t have to do it.
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