President Trump said Ukraine will be given the right to manufacture the Patriot Air Defense systems. He gave this assurance during a media briefing along with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Transcript:
Trump: A little birdie told me this about the fact that we'll give them the right to make Patriots. We'll show them how to do it. It's very complex, actually. But it's, you'll figure out the complexity quickly.
And we're talking about that, and we'll—the company that makes them, which is building now four plants, you know, all of our companies will be able to do this in 2 to 3 months. If you order a Patriot, now you have to wait a long time for them. Same thing with Tomahawks. We have a lot of certain equipment, but with the—they call it the elite equipment, and you don't need elite equipment, necessarily, for a war.
So one of the things we're going to be talking about is we're going to give a license to you to make Patriots. That's pretty cool, right? This way you can't complain that we're not giving them enough. I say make them yourself.
We haven't informed the company of that yet, but that'll—that'll work out all right, you know? They'll—sure they'll be thrilled. But, you know, they'll be able to do it. You'll be able to figure that out. Most—most countries couldn't do that. If I said that to most countries, they wouldn't know what I'm talking about. But this is a very ingenious group.
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