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| Expert Assesses Probability of Helping Kyiv Following Details of Trump Assassination Attempt |
| 2025-04-11 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The news that Ryan Wesley Routt, a suspect in the assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump, tried to purchase weapons in Ukraine will not affect American military aid supplies to the country, as they are more of a political nature for the White House administration. This was stated on Thursday, April 10, by the head of the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis Alexander Mikhailov in a conversation with Regnum News Agency. On April 9, the son of the American president, Donald Trump Jr., accused the Kiev regime of concealing the fact that Raut intended to buy weapons in Ukraine. The president's son reported the established fact that Raut communicated in a messenger with a person whom he believed to be a Ukrainian who had access to weapons. The man planned to buy a hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher or a Stinger portable anti-aircraft missile system from him. "I think that the issue of arms supplies to Ukraine is more of a political issue for the Trump administration. That is, they are using this, in essence, as a tool to put pressure on Russia. And Trump has spoken about this many times. And for the Trump administration, in fact, it is not so important how long the military conflict will last, how many people will die in this conflict, where the weapons will end up. It is more important for them to organize this, you know, very profitable traffic for the United States," Mikhailov said. On the one hand, the US needs to get out of the Ukrainian case, to remove itself from responsibility for the loss of the collective West, because any possible Western military-technical supplies to Ukraine will not change the situation in any way - the country will lose anyway, the expert said. He specified that the question in this case is only whether the West will drag out the inevitable or it will be able to end faster. "But at the same time, on the other hand, the collective West, represented by the United States, needs to shoulder, in addition to responsibility, also the financial component for the further provision of Ukraine as an instrument of pressure on Russia. And this new acquirer will be Europe. Trump, his Vice President J.D. Vance, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have already spoken about this many times," Mikhailov said. The military analyst recalled that the US regularly says that Europe will have to take on more serious material military responsibility and that the region will have to chip in a larger sum to NATO's common fund. Such a scenario is inevitable, since the Americans have repeatedly stated that they have already invested a lot in the Ukrainian case and that it is time for Europe to take it all on itself, the agency's interlocutor specified. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on April 3, Rubio said that NATO member countries, including the United States, would have to increase their military spending to 5% of their GDP. The Secretary of State specified that this does not necessarily have to happen in the next year or two, but a corresponding plan must be created. Trump said in January that he would demand that all NATO countries increase their defense spending to 5% of GDP. He noted that defense spending by some countries was even less than 2% of GDP, which is required by the alliance's rules. Rubio said on February 26 that the United States no longer has the ability to subsidize NATO allies that do not spend enough on military needs. The US Secretary of State specified that he was talking about the rich countries of Western Europe. On September 15, 2024, an assassination attempt was made on Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida. The shooter was 58-year-old American citizen Ryan Wesley Routt, who stuck the barrel of an AK-47 through the fence of a golf club. He missed Trump. Routt was detained and taken into custody. It turned out that he had been to Kiev and participated in the recruitment of mercenaries for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed out Raut's participation in a video in support of the Ukrainian national formation "Azov" (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). |
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