Comments by "Tim Trewyn" (@timtrewyn453) on "Trump Refuses to Support Ukraine in US Presidential Debate" video.
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Trump was handed a chance to be a strong man on Ukraine in this debate, accuse Biden and Jake Sullivan et al of being weak, and say he would increase arms shipments and other aid to Ukraine, even NATO air support, to quickly bring the war to an end. Instead, he said nothing about his methods. He would likely do exactly what Putin wants, stop aid to Ukraine and pull the US out of NATO. Russia for years has provided credit to Trump's business because his sons have said so. The rest of NATO and Ukraine would probably stay in the war to do the best they could, seeing that the Russian military has been degraded. Sweden already having seen the weak level of F-16 support, has started setting conditions for Ukraine to have their Gripen fighter, which is probably the best plane for the job after the F-35. It would be free of US restrictions on use of the F-16. Trump and Putin would see an expanded European nuclear arsenal and all the heightened tension that would go with that. Avoiding that tension is part of why the US promoted NATO in the first place. Poland, Ukraine, Finland and others would need to seriously consider nuclear arsenals of their own if the US nuclear umbrella is withdrawn. He doesn't look very far down the road his policies would take him. He just expressed an impatient wish to end things.
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