Andreas Kluth, Columnist

Biden Did Trump a Favor With US Missiles in Ukraine

Donald Trump will soon negotiate with Vladimir Putin about Ukraine. And Joe Biden just gave Trump another bargaining chip.

November 20, 2024 at 10:00 AM UTC

By Andreas Kluth

Andreas Kluth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US diplomacy, national security and geopolitics. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for the Economist.

I’ve got something for you before you talk to Putin.
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The Military Industrial Complex, as represented by incumbent president Joe Biden, “seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives.” So tweeted Donald Trump Jr., son of the eponymous president-elect. Other Trumpies weighed in too: “No one anticipated that Joe Biden would ESCALATE the war in Ukraine during the transition period. This is as if he is launching a whole new war.”

Their indignation, real or feigned, is over Biden’s green light to the Ukrainians to shoot American-made missiles much deeper into Russia than they were hitherto allowed, as part of their self-defense against the de facto war of annihilation waged by Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.