US presidential candidate suggested keeping Putin on his toes by arming Ukraine - CBS
US Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has proposed supplying offensive weapons to Ukraine in order to keep Putin on his toes, an American TV channel reports. CBS. This, in his opinion, is one of the points of confrontation with Russia, the second of which is Syria.
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“Look where most of the refugees are – on the Turkish-Syrian border. I think we should create a no-fly zone there,” Carson said in a television interview. “We have to do this in relation to Putin to try to reduce the likelihood of conflict... But we also have to confront him in other parts of the world.”
Therefore, Carson supported the supply of offensive weapons to Kyiv.
“We must give Ukraine offensive weapons,” Carson said. “We must restore the missile defense system in the countries of NATO’s eastern partners... The United States must keep Putin in constant tension by arming Ukraine,” said the US presidential candidate.
Carson’s rival for the post of US presidential candidate, Senator Lindsey Graham, in a debate with him on this issue, responded that US actions in Syria are “a complete disaster”: “It is a complete disaster for us, it means that the war there will never end, and the refugees keep coming..."
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