Trump: US to Send More Weapons for Ukraine, NATO to Pay

Bloomberg

5 hours ago

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We made a deal today and I'm going to have Mark 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. We, the United States, will not be having any payment made. We're not buying it, but we will manufacturer it and they're going to be paying for it. Our last meeting of a month ago was very successful in that they agreed to 5%, which is more than $1,000,000,000,000 a year. So they have a lot of money. And these are wealthy nations who have a lot of money and they want to do it. They feel very strongly about it and we feel strongly about it. But we're in for a lot of money and we just we don't want to do any more than we can, but we make the best that we're going to be sending the best to NATO and in some cases to maybe at my suggestion, if we go to Germany, where they're going to send early on missiles and they'll be replaced and NATO's going to take care of it, it's going to be coordinated by NATO and they're going to work very much with Matt Whitaker, who's right here, is a great ambassador. And Matt is going to be coordinate. You better do a good job, Matt. I will. But match going to coordinate. He's a very talented guy. He's going to coordinate everything. So in a nutshell, we're going to make top of the line weapons and they'll be sent to Naito. Naito may choose to have certain of them sent to other countries where we can get a little additional speed, where the country will release something, and it'll be mostly in the form of a replacement. This is a very big deal with man. This is billions of dollars worth of military equipment is going to be purchased from the United States, going to NAITO, etc. and that's going to be quickly distributed to the battlefield in Ukraine. Will take it up and, you know, say what you want about Ukraine. When the war started, they had no chance and they still would've had no chance if the equipment had the best equipment, because we don't make the best planes and missiles and we make the best military equipment in the world by far. You know, we have new things coming out that are beyond belief. And I'm very excited about the golden Dome. It's going to give us very strong protection.