Though doubt looms over Trump’s moves in the coming months, his warm relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his September claim that Ukraine was “demolished” and its people “dead” have left Kyiv worried.
In his victory speech in Florida, Republican party leader Trump did not directly mention the war in Ukraine but reminded the cheering crowd that the U.S. saw “no wars” during his first presidential term from 2017 to 2021 before Joe Biden, the Democratic party’s outgoing president, succeeded him.
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The Kyiv Independent asked six Ukrainian servicemen for their reaction to Trump’s victory.
The optimistic alternative is EU countries scale up their military production and cover the gap. We were already seeing a ramp up, but it’ll have to accelerate.
Downside for the US is later down the line, exports will go down as the EU will have more domestic manufacturing.