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When President Donald Trump flip-flopped on his Ukraine stance in late August, he announced that he will be approving the sale of weapons to NATO, and allow “NATO to do what they want with them”. Moscow has now escalated their warnings as Trump considers the sale of long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, something he mulled back in July. Notably, when President-via-autopen Joe Biden approved Kiev to strike targets deep within Russia with long-range missiles nearly a year ago a global thermonuclear war almost kicked off.
“Whatever we can give … without any restrictions … to Ukraine, it is helping to win the war and push Russia back,” the Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said Tuesday. “So, if President Trump and the U.S. is deciding to take down restrictions from military support, as well Tomahawks, it’s just helping Ukraine to win and push Russia back … It’s up to the U.S. to decide that.”
Trump has recently decided to keep supplying NATO, but notably, long-range strikes into Russia are currently not approved.
“We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them. Good luck to all!’ Trump said on September 23.
On Sunday Russian President Vladimir Putin said that if Trump provides these long-range weapons to Kiev it would “lead to the destruction of our relations. At least the positive tendencies that have appeared in these relations.”
On Wednesday Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said that the momentum toward peace in the Ukraine war which was constructed during the August 15 Pursuing Peace summit in Alaska between President Trump and Russian President Putin is largely gone now.
“Unfortunately, the powerful momentum from the Anchorage [summit] in favor of [peace] agreements has largely been undermined through efforts by opponents and efforts by supporters of ‘war till the last Ukrainian’, mostly among the Europeans,” Ryabkov said.
In late September Ukraine’s Dictator Vladimir Zelensky requested Tomahawk missiles with a range of up to approximately 2,400 km (about 1,500 miles).
On Monday Trump said that he has “sort of made a decision” on whether to give the long-range missiles to Kiev.
“I sort of made a decision, pretty much, if you consider… I think I want to find out what they’re doing with them. You know, where are they sending them? I guess I’d have to ask that question,” he told reporters.“[That war] should never have started. Would have never started. Such bad judgment was used there, I think on both sides, by the way.”
Trump did however say that his intention is not to escalate the conflict via the missile transfer, although how the missiles won’t escalate the conflict isn’t clear.
“I think I want to find out what they’re doing with them,” Trump said of Ukraine’s Tomahawk request on Monday. “I would ask some questions. I’m not looking to escalate that war.”
The U.S. is also directly involved in the Ukraine war, something Infowars revealed long before the mainstream media.
