— If we can't admit Ukraine to NATO now, my thought with Boris Johnson is to make it clear to Putin that if he always does it again, if there's another Russian invasion of Ukraine, This will lead to the automatic admission of Ukraine to NATO said Graham in an interview with POLITICO at the Munich safety Conference.
“We must arm them to the teeth”
He besides stated that the US should proceed to send weapons to Ukraine. “We must proceed to build the possible of the Ukrainian army. Arm them to their teeth, give them a fewer F-16s," he said.
Graham, president Donald Trump's leading ally, was besides asked to mention to moments of conflicting messages from defence secretary Pete Hegseth and vice president J.D. Vance on Ukraine and whether it should join NATO.
— It doesn't substance what Pete says, it doesn't substance how many telephone calls will be made," Graham said. “What matters is how this will end, if it ends in a way that scares future aggression and if it stabilizes the European continent, it will receive a condition of its merit,” he said.
Graham besides expressed religion in Trump's ability to negociate with Russian president Vladimir Putin, describing Putin as ‘bandit and tyrant’who “will get distant with anything until individual stops him”.
He warned that if Trump offered something he thought was a reasonable deal and Putin rejected it, ‘he will make a serious mistake’.
