Comments by "Tim Trewyn" (@timtrewyn453) on "Trump says US needs to get off the sidelines in Ukraine’s fight for survival" video.

  1. President Trump's Ukraine policy was a mixed bag. To his credit, he continued the training programs of the California National Guard in Ukraine and provided a measure of arms during his term. He did not assist Ukraine in developing the kind of air and missile power that could have wrecked the Russian invasion in its first days. Air power takes years to develop and is very expensive, and that kind of expenditure would not be consistent with an America first policy. But systems like the ATACMS in good numbers with trained crews could have largely survived a first strike and heavily attritted the Russian invasion in its first hours and even across the Russian border to hit supporting military targets. To his credit, Trump did not get in the way of Turkey selling effective drones to Ukraine, but on the other hand his arms program did not finance the kind of drone numbers Ukraine needed. Is he right about his personality preventing the invasion? Perhaps.
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