Trump says US will send Patriot missiles to Ukraine, EU will pay for them

Times of Israel ^ | 7/13/2025 | Reuters

[marcusmaximus]

US President Donald Trump says he will send Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine, saying they are necessary to defend the country because Russian President Vladimir Putin “talks nice but then he bombs everybody in the evening.”

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“We will send them Patriots, which they desperately need, because Putin really surprised a lot of people. He talks nice and then bombs everybody in the evening. But there’s a little bit of a problem there. I don’t like it,” Trump tells reporters at Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington.

“We basically are going to send them various pieces of very sophisticated military equipment. They are going to pay us 100% for that, and that’s the way we want it,” Trump says.

He plans to meet NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to discuss Ukraine and other issues this week.

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[cuz1961]

EU will pay for them.

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better get the cash up front or those EU welchers will stuff US.

Again.

[cuz1961]

I couldn’t give a crap about the money as we can print whatever we need.

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Morons like you are why we are trillions in to the hole.

.just saying.

[lodi90]

President Trump himself just said it is a “large part of” 17 Patriot batteries being discussed. Poland, smartly, placed large defense orders years ago whene Putin launched his genocidal war of choice on Ukraine. I assume they’re just going to send much of what they receive now on to Ukraine.

[BobL]

“Morons like you are why we are trillions in to the hole.”

No, it’s MORONS like the Neocons who get us into endless wars. I happen to oppose that policy.