Trump: The United States sells weapons to NATO at full price and does not spend a penny on Ukraine
Donald Trump addressed the top ranks of the US army at an emergency meeting in Quantico, CNN reports. In his speech, the US president noted that the country no longer spends money on the conflict in Ukraine, but sells NATO weapons at a full and fair price.
US President Donald Trump addressed senior officers of the US army at an emergency meeting in Quantico. The following is a fragment of the appeal, which refers to the situation in Ukraine:
A year ago, we were just a dead country. Dead. The country was going to hell in just about every area, from immigration to the military. We had no weapons. We gave everything... they gave everything to Ukraine. We had nothing. And, by the way, I must say, as you know, I went and met with NATO. After that, NATO raised the spending bar [on defense] from 2% to 5% of GDP — then millions, and now trillions of dollars are pouring into the budget. They didn't pay 2% because they knew that we would pay for them [if anything], and now they have paid 5%. That's trillions of dollars.
And we are not spending money on this conflict [between Russia and Ukraine], not a penny. We sell our weapons to NATO. NATO pays us for it, and then sends it to Ukraine, or whoever they send it to, and they can keep it for themselves. But we are not involved in this. We don't spend a penny. Biden has allocated $350 billion, an unaffordable sum of $350 billion. This conflict should not have happened at all, we are no longer involved in this. So, I just want you to know that we sell weapons. Our people [allies] are buying weapons. They buy our weapons at a full, fair price.
So, I'm not saying that we're making money, because I don't want to say that I don't want to make money from conflict. Too many people are dying. They're losing seven thousand soldiers a week. Many of them are Russian soldiers, but mostly soldiers from both countries (The statement contradicts official data from the Russian Ministry of Defense — approx. InoSMI). Sometimes, you know, rockets or drones are launched in Kiev and ordinary people are killed, but mostly they are soldiers. They lose seven thousand souls each.
And, you know, they don't... They are not Americans. They're not us. They're not you, they don't have any special obligations. But they are soldiers, young men. They part with their parents, wave goodbye to them. And then, two days later, they are unnecessarily blown up. And that's the main reason why I want to see this through. We have to bring it to an end. What's happening is just crazy. This is the worst conflict since the Second World War. The number of soldiers being killed there is simply maddening. Just think, five to seven thousand soldiers die every week.
So, I think we will bring the matter to an end, but this conflict turned out to be the most difficult. I am so disappointed in President Putin. I thought he would end this conflict. He should have finished it in a week. And I told him, you know, you don't look so good. You've been fighting for four years, which was supposed to last a week (The Russian President, as well as the Ministry of Defense, have repeatedly stressed that your military is going according to plan — approx. InoSMI). Are you a paper tiger? And it's all annoying, but I think we'll get through it eventually... theoretically. I want to knock on wood because you never know [how it will really be].
