On Sunday it was reported that the U.S. is sending a refurbished Patriot air defense system from Israel to Ukraine.
While it remains unclear if President Donald Trump’s administration initiated the transfer or if the former Joe Biden administration initiated it before leaving office, Trump’s mineral deal includes provisions for U.S. air defense of Ukraine.
If the system was transferred under the auspices of the mineral deal, it would likely be for the security of U.S. personnel and assets which may soon become present in Ukraine to extract it’s mineral resources as a form of repayment for Washington’s military aid to Kiev.
It should also be noted that the Patriot anti-missile system is a defensive system not designed for offensive use, and has already been in use by Ukraine for years.
“A Patriot air-defense system that was based in Israel will be sent to Ukraine after it is refurbished, four current and former U.S. officials said in recent days, and Western allies are discussing the logistics of Germany or Greece giving another one,” The New York Times said Sunday. “The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the discussions, declined to describe President Trump’s view of the decision to transfer more Patriot systems to Ukraine.”
Former head of the CIA’s operations in Europe and Eurasia, Ralph Goff, recently said that the Biden administration gave Ukraine enough weapons to bleed, but not to win. He cited Washington’s fears that the war would go nuclear, a very real fear as Tucker Carlson explained the Pentagon conducted a prospectus showing a 50 percent chance of the war going nuclear if long distance heavy missiles were launched into Russia from Ukraine. Nonetheless this was done in November, nearly sparking off global thermonuclear war.
“Had we equipped the Ukrainians at that time with proper weaponry, they might have been able to drive the Russians all the way out of the country,” Goff said. “It didn’t happen. It set the stage for this longer, protracted, drawn out, meat grinder war that we are witnessing today.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently said that the West wanted Russia to nuke Ukraine so as to be able to play the victim in a nuclear war.
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