Report: US and European Officials Discussed Giving Ukraine Nuclear Weapons

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Western officials are less concerned that Russian President Vladimir Putin will escalate the conflict before Donald Trump takes office

According to the New York Times, US and European officials have discussed a range of options they believe will deter Russia from taking more Ukrainian territory, including providing Kiev with nuclear weapons. The outlet reports that Western officials believe the Kremlin will not significantly escalate the war before Donald Trump is sworn in as President in January.

Following the election of Trump earlier this month, the US and its NATO allies began taking steps to rush weapons to Ukraine and give Kiev the ability to strike targets inside Russian territory with long-range weapons.

American officials who were briefed on the intelligence communityโ€™s assessments told the Times that weapons will not alter the challenging situation that Kiev is currently facing. โ€œUS spy agencies have assessed that speeding up the provisions of weapons, ammunition and matรฉriel for Ukraine will do little to change the course of the war in the short term,โ€ the Times reports.

Desperate to bolster Ukraineโ€™s standing in the war before the transition of power on January 20, the Biden administration is looking at a range of serious escalations. โ€œUS and European officials are discussing deterrence as a possible security guarantee for Ukraine, such as stockpiling a conventional arsenal sufficient to strike a punishing blow if Russia violates a cease-fire.โ€ The article continues, โ€œSeveral officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union.โ€

According to some officials who spoke with the Times, the administration believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin wonโ€™t significantly escalate the war until Trump returns to the Oval Office.

โ€œBut the escalation risk of allowing Ukraine to strike Russia with US-supplied weaponry has diminished with the election of Mr. Trump,โ€ adding,โ€ Biden administration officials believe, calculating that Putin of Russia knows he has to wait only two months for the new administration.โ€

By Kyle Anzalone

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Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of theย Libertarian Institute, and co-host ofย Conflicts of Interest.

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