As TGP has reported, on Monday (14), US President Donald J. Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte have announced a new initiative to send US-made, Europe-paid for weapons to Ukraine.
This generated a flurry of activity across the continent, and the inevitable fake reports with ‘anonymous sources’ have arisen to muddy the waters of the public’s understanding of the plan.
Today, Trump has clarified that he does not mean to supply the Kiev regime with JASSM long-range missiles, that have a range of up to 800 km and could reach Moscow and other targets deep inside Russian territory.
This comes as he has also said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces should NOT strike the Russian capital.
Telegraph reported:
“Donald Trump has ruled out sending long-range missiles to Ukraine, after reports suggested he was considering giving Kiev weapons that could strike as far as Moscow.
Asked on Tuesday whether the US would deliver deep-strike munitions to Ukraine, Mr. Trump said: ‘No, we’re not looking to do that’.”
“He went on to say that Ukraine should not attack the Russian capital, adding: ‘I’m on nobody’s side. You know whose side I’m on? Humanity’s side’.
In a phone call with the BBC on Tuesday, Mr Trump said he was ‘disappointed, but not done with Putin’. He said: ‘I thought we had a deal done four times, and then you go home and you see he just attacked a nursing home or something in Kiev’.”
In the meantime, in Europe, two camps are forming depending on whether each country intends to pay for the US weapons to be delivered to the Kiev regime.
European countries that so far have agreed to pay for the weapons:
Germany, as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte noted, is ‘massively invested’ in the plan.
The United Kingdom and the Netherlands are always mentioned as supporting the purchase of US weapons for Ukraine.
The Nordic Countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland) are also part of the funding initiative.
However, many meaningful European nations have so far declined the US-NATO plan – and surprisingly, some of the best US allies in Europe are on this list.
France will not take part, with President Emmanuel Macron invested in strengthening Europe’s own defense industries by purchasing domestically produced arms.
Trump ally, Giorgia Meloni’s Italy has also opted out, citing a simple lack of available funds for the initiative.
The Czech Republic is reportedly one of the countries refusing to participate in the scheme.
US close ally, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary is also out, consistent with its refusal to support military aid to Ukraine.
Slovakia and Slovenia are also listed among the countries that will not finance the purchase of U.S. weapons for Ukraine.
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