For the first time, we see Putin in real trouble, and hopefully his end is coming soon given what he has done to the country of Russia. Even dictators like Putin reach their limits with the people, and once the word gets out, he will have some major issues.
The media in Russia is like ours; they misinform, censor and tell lies in support of the crazies, the dictator in Russia, and the socialists in America. It would be nice to see Putin knocked down a notch or two because he offers nothing to society as a whole except death and destruction. This man has nukes, and I am sure he would use them if it were not for the USA as a deterrent. China would be fine with Russia using nukes as long as it was against their enemies as well. We are the lone deterrent against evil at this time but need Europe to really step up their game and cut the politics. All IMO.
“Ukraine won’t be able to complain that America and the West aren’t giving it enough advanced defensive interceptor missiles because they’ll be allowed to make their own domestically, President Donald Trump sensationally revealed at the NATO summit in Turkey.
The United States government will grant Ukraine a license to build the Patriot Missile, an active component of the world-class surface-to-air missile interceptor system, one of the few ways to prevent a ballistic missile strike. Ballistic missiles are particularly difficult to intercept because they are propelled into space before returning to Earth, plummeting at enormous speed towards their targets.
The plan to radically boost production of the sophisticated, highly demanded, and long lead-time weapon by allowing Ukrainian factories to produce them was announced by President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday afternoon.
Urgently asking for more Patriot missiles has been a key theme for President Zelensky for months, and it is unclear whether Trump’s remarks to journalists as he sat beside the Ukrainian leader in Ankara are the first time Zelensky heard about the plan to hand over the blueprints, although President Trump certainly presented the news as if it were a surprise.
While the latest generation of Patriot missiles is extremely sophisticated, President Trump reflected on the quality of the Ukrainian defence industry and expressed his opinion that not only was Ukraine one of the only countries in the world that would be capable of making their own Patriots, but that they’d be able to start making them very quickly, too
Stating that he was comfortable sharing the secrets to this advanced weapon system with Ukraine because it is a defensive, not offensive, system, President Trump said: “We’ll give them the right to make Patriots. We’ll show them how to do it, it’s very complex… That’s pretty cool, right? That’s why he can’t complain we’re not giving him enough, make ’em yourself!”.
Emphasising that Ukraine could get the production lines up and running quickly, Trump continued to say that “most countries couldn’t do that… but this is a very ingenious group… [it could be done in] not that much time, actually… I think they can produce them pretty quickly… we’ll work with the company. They have the capability to produce weapons, pretty complex weapons”.
President Zelensky, for his part, appeared pleased with the news and praised Patriot, calling it “the best in the world today, the best anti-ballistic system”.