President Trump on Friday told reporters that he’s still talking to Ukraine about providing US weapons like Patriot missile interceptors, but he wants to be “very careful” about giving the advanced technology to another country.
He even suggested that Ukraine “can someday turn on you,” though he said he doesn’t think it “would ever happen.”
Trump previously floated that the US would “give a license” to Ukraine to make Patriot defensive missiles during a bilateral meeting with the Ukrainian President at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, this month.
“We’re gonna give a license to you to make Patriots. That’s pretty cool, right?” Trump told Zelensky.
“This way he can’t complain that we’re not giving him enough. I said, ‘Make ’em yourself’”
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However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump revealed on Thursday that he’s “not sure” about giving them the missiles. “It’s a very extraordinary weapon, and we have to be a little bit careful of who we license to. We don’t really license equipment,” Trump told the Financial Times in an interview.
Then, on Friday, Trump was asked about his comments during a cabinet meeting at Camp David, and he said Ukraine and the US have “not agreed to that,” but talks continue.
“Well, it’s a big step,” Trump said, noting, “we have the greatest weapons in the world. We have the greatest drones in the world. People don’t know that. We have the greatest weaponry in the world.”
“In the case of President Zelenskyy, he’d like to have some Patriots. He’d like to have some tomahawks, which are, you know, lethal, one offensive, one defensive,” the President continued, before highlighting the power of the American weapons.
“Nobody else has that capacity. These weapons are incredible. We have to be very careful about letting somebody build other. You know, it’s very important.”
Trump further said, “You have to be very judicious, but you have to be very careful. Now, we have not agreed to that. We’re talking about it, but it’s a hard thing to give away that kind of technology, and I don’t think this would ever happen, but you know, those people that you give that technology, they can someday turn on you.”
“I gave them the javelins. The javelins are unbelievable,” he added. “We have to be very careful about giving out the secrets to those weapons, and they’re not-you can’t copy them. It’s a little like Nvidia. They have a chip. They say you cannot copy it. The complexity is so great you cannot.”
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