Donald Trump announces the supply of new weapons to Ukraine: “We will produce them and the allies of NATO will pay them”.
New aerial defenses and a new deadline to get to a ceased in Ukraine, under penalty of secondary penalties. This is the message that American president Donald Trump sent to Russia today. Some clues he had already given him In recent days, but today, during the meeting held in the oval study in Washington with the NATO secretary general Mark Ruttethe official has arrived.
New penalties
«I am discontent with Russia, We will impose severe rates if we do not have an agreement within 50 days, secondary rates around 100%». Let’s start with duties, so dear to the American president, the new attempt to bring Moscow to the negotiating table.
This measure, when and if it is implemented, represents a version light of the bill presented to the congress by American senators Lindsey Graham And Richard Blumenthalwhich provides for the imposition of duties of 500% for all countries that acquire oil, natural gas and uranium from Russia. A measure diluted by Trump, also to avoid cheap shocks given the incredible weight that Russia covers as an exporting country in each of these three resources.
“I am disappointed by President Putin, I expected an agreement two months ago, but it does not seem possible, for this reason we will impose 100% secondary rates if we do not reach an agreement in 50 days”, has reiterated the Tycoon. The reason for 100%duties, and not in the 500, is that for the figure proposed by Trump the presidential powers will be sufficient, without the need to switch from the congress.
But also new weapons
Immediately afterwards, the long -awaited announcement to Kiev: «We have reached an agreement to send weapons to Ukraine, the United States will produce them, the allies of NATO will pay them; We are sending the best armaments, of high -end ». However, Trump did not mention which types of weapon systems referred to, limiting himself to saying that the overall value is counted in billions.
During the day, the specialized magazine Military Watch Magazine he said that the new aid would also enter the Jassm air-air cruise missilesavailable in two variants, one with a 370 kilometer range and the other for about 1000. These weapons would not change the course of the war, but they would enrich the very small arsenal Ukrainian of long -haul, now made up of a few tens of Storm Shadow Anglo-French.
The relief for Kiev also arrives on the “Air Defense” chapter. The American president has in fact declared that new Patriot systems will also be provided: «Some will arrive very soon, within a few days. In reality, a couple of countries that Patriot have the exchange, and we will replace the Patriots with those who have them », that is,, These countries will send their systems to Ukraine and buy the new ones from the United States.
Trump has repeatedly stressed that the United States will not pay a single dollar for the weapons that will be produced and sent to Kievrepeatedly affirming that this “is not Trump’s war”. NATO Secretary has also declared, in a somewhat questionable way, that it is “totally logical to want the Europeans to pay. This means that Ukraine will be able to get their hands on military equipment and ammunition. This is very important ».
Trump therefore concluded by reiterating his frustration for the few progress on the negotiating front, “from Putin only speeches come, and then the missiles arrive to Kiev and kill 60 people, he must stop, this must end; It’s a tough, he deceived a lot of people, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, but not me ».
The new mechanism seems to take shape definitively, the Americans produce weapons, the Europeans pay them.
