Donald Trump has said he “vehemently” disagrees with the decision to permit Ukraine to strike targets within Russia with US-supplied long-range missiles.

Joe Barnes

The Daily Telegraph Dec 12, 2024

Donald Trump speaks during a Time magazine Person of the Year event at the New York Stock Exchange Credit: Alex Brandon/AP

The president-elect said the policy switch by Joe Biden’s administration had escalated the war between Russia and Ukraine, and “made things worse”.

“I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia,” Mr Trump told Time in an interview to mark being named the magazine’s person of the year for a second time.

“Why are we doing that? We’re just escalating this war and making it worse. That should not have been allowed to be done.”

Mr Biden, the outgoing president, took the decision last month on the use of Atacms rockets within Russia by Ukrainian forces.

Kyiv had begged Washington for months for permission for such long-range strikes but was repeatedly rebuffed because of fears over escalation.

The White House eventually agreed to the long-running request in response to North Korean soldiers being deployed on the battlefield by Moscow.

It also prompted Britain and France to drop restrictions on the use of their Storm Shadow and Scalp-eg cruise missiles on military targets inside Russia.

Almost immediately after the first strikes occurred on Russian soil, Vladimir Putin threatened the use of a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile against Ukraine in a retaliatory strike.

The Russian president eventually made a televised address to announce that the Oreshnik missile had been used for the first time in an attack on a weapons production plant in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

US officials on Wednesday warned that Russia could be preparing to fire another hypersonic ballistic missile at Ukrainian territory…CONTINUES

Martin comments: Well, of course he vehemently disagrees. I fully expect that Trump will continue his prior role as The Great Man of Peace. Meaning a reduction in traditional military warfare. HOWEVER he has already stated that WW3 will not be fought with tanks and troops, but a whole new range of technologies. Enter Elon the Techno-Messiah and his Thousand Points of Light. Perhaps the Illuminati are still in charge regardless of who one votes in?

Meanwhile regarding Russia and Hypersonic missiles:

Putin sending Russia’s new hypersonic missiles to Belarus

The Russian leader says the missiles reduce the need for nuclear weapons amid an escalating war with Ukraine.

Russia is preparing to deploy its new hypersonic Oreshnik missiles in Belarus in 2025, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday.

Lukashenko said he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for the new missiles on Friday, citing fears of escalation due to the presence of Polish and Lithuanian troops near Belarus’ western border. The Belarusian leader said his country is in the process of deciding where to deploy the Russian-provided Oreshniks, according to Belarusian media Tuesday.

“Russians will supply us with missiles for free,” Lukashenko said, adding that Belarus would choose what to target with the missiles. 

Russia first used the Oreshnik missile to strike the Ukrainian city of Dnipro late last month in response to Kyiv’s use of advanced weapons provided by France, the U.S. and the U.K. to strike Russia. After the missile launch, Putin boasted that “as of today there are no means of counteracting such a weapon.” 

[Martin comments: refer my prior comments. There may be such means hiding in the shadows!]

At the time, Putin also threatened countries helping Ukraine defend itself against Russia, saying “we consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against the military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities.”

The new hypersonic ballistic missile reduces the need for nuclear weapons, Putin said on Tuesday, seemingly downplaying the threat of a nuclear conflagration amid an escalating war against Ukraine…CONTINUES