Ukraine’s Patriots will make America safer

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President Donald Trump announced that he will grant Ukraine a license to manufacture Patriot interceptor missiles. This decision is a welcome shift in U.S. policy that will serve American and Ukrainian interests alike. Both the United States and Europe will be safer as a result.

“We’re going to give you a license to make Patriots,” Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during Wednesday’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. “I think they can produce them very quickly once we explain it,” he added.

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