Trump on the Ukraine War:
They say you're so nice to Russia. I'm not nice to Russia. I've been very tough on Russia. I gave the Ukrainians Javelins. A Javelin is an anti-tank weapon, and those Russian tanks were obliterated.
And everybody said, "What's wrong?" Because, you know, they have the satellites, right? The satellite photos, and the tanks were lined up and they weren't moving for days. And then they came to hit 'em with satellites. They were locked in quicksand, practically. It was mud like quicksand. They couldn't move.
Had this Russian general just gone right up the concrete highway, they would've been in Kyiv within four hours, and there wasn't a damn thing that Ukraine was going to do about it. That war would've been over in one day.
That was four and a half years ago. So that was a terrible mistake.
They were totally unprepared. And not only that, when they wiped out all these tanks, it gave them confidence. You know, confidence is very important.
Source: Axios