Trump Jr. and Kennedy warn Biden on missile escalation in Ukraine

The son of the former president, Donald Trump Jr., along with Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr., published an article in The Hill warning the Biden administration against allowing Ukraine to use American missiles for deep strikes on Russian territory.

In the jointly published article, Trump’s son and President Kennedy's nephew demand that President Biden "reverse their insane war agenda and open direct negotiations with Moscow". They argue that although this is what the Republican presidential candidate promises, by the time he takes office, "it might be too late" due to the Biden administration's consideration of allowing the use of American weapons for strikes deep into Russian territory.

"Each escalation — from HIMARS to cluster munitions to Abrams tanks to F-16s to ATACMS — draws the world closer to the brink of Armageddon. Their logic seems to be that if you goad a bear five times and it doesn’t respond, it is safe to goad him even harder a sixth time," the authors warn. They refer to remarks by Vladimir Putin, who threatened that granting Ukrainians permission for deep strikes would mean NATO’s direct involvement in the war with Russia and that Russia "will use all available means" if its territorial integrity is threatened.

The authors claim that America has no vital interest in the current conflict, warnings about the threat to the rest of Europe from Putin are "absurd", and Russia only wants to "halt NATO’s eastward expansion".

"Russia made its war aims very clear at the outset — most notably Ukrainian neutrality and a halt to NATO’s eastward expansion. Hundreds of thousands of lost lives, and hundreds of billions of dollars later, no one is better off — not Europe, not America and certainly not Ukraine," claim Trump Jr. and Kennedy Jr.

Allowing Ukraine to use long-range Western weapons was the subject of a conversation last Friday between President Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Despite reports suggesting a possible breakthrough, no decision was announced. U.S. administration officials and the earlier Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin told journalists that such a decision would not lead to decisive changes in the war situation, especially since Russia moved its bombers out of the range of American ATACMS missiles and British Storm Shadow. Nevertheless, Kyiv and politicians from both parties in Congress press the White House to relax restrictions imposed on Ukraine.