トランプ陣営、ウクライナ武器使用めぐる政策変更を非難

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】ドナルド・トランプ次期米大統領の陣営は１８日、ジョー・バイデン大統領がウクライナに対し、米国製長距離ミサイルをロシア本国への攻撃に使用することを容認したのを受け、危険なエスカレーションにつながると強く非難した。（写真は、ウクライナのウォロディミル・ゼレンスキー大統領〈左〉とドナルド・トランプ次期米大統領）
　任期終了まであと２か月となったバイデン氏は、侵攻するロシアと戦っているウクライナの以前からの要請に応じる形で、大きな政策変更に踏み切った。対照的に、来年１月の大統領就任の準備を進めるトランプ氏は、ウクライナ支援に疑問を呈してきた。
　トランプ氏が大統領補佐官（国家安保担当）に指名する予定のマイク・ウォルツ下院議員はこの日、ＦＯＸニュースに対し、「これはエスカレーションの階段をもう１段上がることであり、誰もこの先どうなるか分からない」と語った。
　第１次トランプ政権で国家情報長官代行を務めたリチャード・グレネル氏も、「ジョー・バイデンが（政権）移行期間中にウクライナで戦争をエスカレートさせるとは誰も予想していなかった。全く新しい戦争を仕掛けるようなものだ」と、Ｘ（旧ツイッター）に投稿した。
　現時点でグレネル氏が新政権に加わる見通しはないが、次期国務長官候補として名前が取り沙汰されていた。
　トランプ氏自身は、長距離ミサイル使用をめぐる政策変更に関し、公には発言していない。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/11/19-17:12）

Donald Trump's allies voiced vehement criticism Monday of President Joe Biden's decision to let Ukraine use US-supplied long-range missiles for attacks inside Russia, accusing him of a dangerous escalation.
With two months left in office, lame-duck US President Biden made a major policy change that yields to a long-standing request from Ukraine as it fights the Russian invasion, now in its third year.
The new policy and Biden's pledge to speed up military aid to Ukraine come as the United States prepares for Trump to take over as president in January, having questioned US assistance throughout the war.
Trump has repeatedly promised to end the war, but has not provided details of how he would do so.
With Russia gaining ground and increasing talk of negotiations, Ukraine is wary of being at a disadvantage when it comes to hashing out a peace settlement.
Moscow has pledged an appropriate response if the US-supplied missiles are in fact used against Russia, and Trump's team accused Biden of escalating the war for political reasons.
At a daily briefing, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller accused Russia of escalation by accepting a deployment of North Korean soldiers to fight Ukrainian forces.
Miller noted that Biden, not Trump, was still the US president -- for now.
Biden's move, however, complicates things for Trump's incoming administration.
- 'A whole new war' -
It's another step up the escalation ladder and nobody knows where this is going, Mike Waltz, Trump's choice to be national security adviser, told Fox News.
No one anticipated that Joe Biden would ESCALATE the war in Ukraine during the transition period. This is as if he is launching a whole new war, Richard Grenell, who was acting Director of National Intelligence during Trump's first term, wrote on X.
Everything has changed now -- all previous calculations are null and void. And all for politics, Grenell said.
For now, Grenell does not have a job in the incoming administration but his name had come up as a possible Secretary of State before Trump finally decided to go with Senator Marco Rubio.
Also weighing in was Donald Trump Jr., who wrote on X: The Military Industrial Complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives.
Trump himself has not spoken publicly on Biden's change of heart regarding the long-range missiles.
He is the only person who can bring both sides together in order to negotiate peace, and work towards ending the war and stopping the killing, said Trump spokesman Steven Cheung.
- Race against time -
Ahead of Trump's return to power, Biden appears to be attempting to ringfence support for Ukraine.
And as the war hits 1,000 days, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga will visit the US Congress on Tuesday seeking to drum up support.
Trump, who takes office on January 20, has said he could end the war in 24 hours and has questioned the more than $60 billion in military aid that the United States has given Ukraine since the war started.
How do we get both sides to the table to end this war? What's the framework for a deal and who is sitting at that table? said Waltz.
Those are the things that I and President Trump, of course, will be working with.
Shortly after his election victory on November 5 over Kamala Harris, Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who called the conversation constructive.