Businessman Trump sells arms to Europe: Russia
Russia says US President Donald Trump is “a businessman, selling everything,” including weapons to the Baltic countries, something Moscow says will not contribute to global and European security.
“America makes profit and money, and what to Europeans get? Weapons? What for?” Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a weekly briefing in Moscow on Wednesday.
She made the comments a day after the presidents of three Baltic countries, namely Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, met with Trump in Washington for a summit marking the 100th anniversary of the Baltic nations’ independence.
The leaders of three former Soviet satellite states expressed worries about an alleged Russian “threat,” despite their membership in NATO.
Kersti Kaljulaid, the Estonian president, even called on Wednesday for the installation of US Patriot missiles and the deployment of American ground troops in her small Baltic country.
Her proposal came a week after Poland, another NATO member state, inked a $4.75-billion deal with the US to purchase a Patriot missile system amid Moscow’s opposition to any deployment of the US-made system in Eastern Europe and near Russia’s borders.
According to a report by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency on Thursday, the US State Department has approved $4.7 billion in potential weapons sales to Slovakia, Spain, and the UK. The proposed sales are pending possible approval by Congress.
Zakharova said, “On the one hand, weapons are supplied, and on the other, parties are constantly set against each other, in particular European countries.”
“What can it lead to? History has different answers to this question.”
Russia: Poland’s talks on hosting US nuclear weapons ‘dangerous’
Russia says weighs downgrading ties with US if assets are seized
'US secretly sent long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine in recent weeks'
Iran urges Security Council to address 'belligerent' Israel's atrocities in Gaza, region
VIDEO | Leader meets workers on Labor Week
French police called in to break up US-style pro-Palestinian student demo
VIDEO | US continues starving Syrians, stealing their resources
Yemeni forces strike Israeli ship, Port of Eilat in solidarity with Gaza
Columbia, Yale students bent on ending US support for Israeli genocide
VIDEO | Genocide in Gaza
Iran calls on BRICS to play role in stopping Israeli crimes
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
