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Trump Warns Putin:
‘Settle’ The Ukraine War Or Tomahawk Missiles May Be ‘Going In Their Direction’
Trump Warns Putin Settle War or Tomahawks May Be 'In Their Direction'
Trump considering giving Putin courtesy call about Tomahawk missiles, giving Russia a chance to de-escalate before any sales are agreed.
www.breitbart.com
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky asked President Donald Trump for Tomahawk missiles, prompting the President to say “we may very well” agree to sell the long range land strike weapon if Russia doesn’t end the war.
The United States is considering selling Tomahawk land attack missiles (TLAMs) for Ukraine’s use, President Donald Trump confirmed in remarks aboard Air Force One as he travelled to Israel overnight.
The President said he acknowledged that the long-range precision strike weapon — which easily has the range for Moscow, and most of Russia’s western military bases from which it launched air strikes on Ukraine — represented a serious step-change in Ukrainian capability, calling it a “new step of aggression”.
He was considering, he said, therefore giving President Putin a courtesy call to inform him about Tomahawk missiles, giving Russia a chance to de-escalate the conflict before any sales of the potent weapon were agreed.
Reflecting on his slew of peace deals in recent months, President Trump said the most enduring lesson he’d learnt on ending conflicts was “never give up, just never give up”, and lamented the pace of death in Ukraine inflicted on the troops of both sides of the conflict. “Just think, every week they’re losing five to seven thousand soldiers, it’s ridiculous”, he said.
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Laying out the situation to President Putin, through the device of a metaphorical future telephone conversation with the Russian leader, President Trump continued: “I might say ‘look, if this war is not going to get settled I’m going to send them Tomahawks’. I might say that.
“The Tomahawk is an incredible weapon, a very offensive weapon, and honestly Russia does not need that. I might tell them ‘if the war is not settled, that we may very well, we may not, but we may do it’. But I think it’s appropriate to bring that up. I want to see the war settled.”
The discussion surrounding TLAMs has been ongoing for several weeks, with both President Trump and Vice President JD Vance alluding to the possibility of the weapons being sold. This notion has been the subject of a stream of invective from the Kremlin, which evidently does not want Ukraine to receive cruise missiles with Moscow-reach and which has vacillated between warnings and dismissal.
Commentary:
We can lay the blame for the Russo-Ukraine war at the feet of the Biden administration. Their corrupt, weakness and inept approach to the dispute posed by Russia ended in war that has cost millions of lives on both sides between Russia and the Ukraine.
Trump is correct in attempting to settle the dispute. The big question is whether Putin is prepared to give up his aspirations for a larger Russia.
