Donald Trump Jr accuses Joe Biden of trying to start WWIII before his father can take office

Donald Trump Jr has accused US President Joe Biden of trying to start WWIII before his father can take office after he gave the green light for Ukraine to blast targets deep inside Russia with US-supplied long-range missiles.  

Biden made the major US policy shift as he is about to leave office despite President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to limit American support for Ukraine and end the war as soon as possible.

Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, posted on X after Biden’s decision was announced, saying that ‘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’.

David Sacks, a tech millionaire who was a major donor for Trump’s presidential campaigner, added that Biden permitting Ukraine to use US-supplied missiles in Russia would ‘massively escalate’ the situation. 

‘President Trump won a clear mandate to end the war in Ukraine. So what does Biden do in his final two months in office? Massively escalate it. Is his goal to hand Trump the worst situation possible?’ Sacks said. 

Ukraine plans to conduct its first long-range attacks in the coming days, according to sources. The first deep strikes are reportedly likely to be carried out using ATACMS rockets, which have a range of up to 190 miles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky noted that the reports about Biden’s policy change had not been openly confirmed by the White House but said the ‘missiles will speak for themselves’.

Zelensky had been pressing Biden for months to allow his country to strike military targets deeper inside Russia with US-supplied missiles, saying the ban had made it impossible for Kyiv to try to stop Russian attacks on its cities and electrical grids.

Former senior NATO official Nicholas Williams has called the decision to allow Ukraine to fire US-supplied missiles into Russia ‘significant in terms of the end game’. 

‘It is significant. The Ukrainians may say it’s too little too late but it’s not too late to affect the end game,’ he told Sky News.

Williams also said the decision was important for ‘positioning Ukraine to not make the significant concessions which Russia wants in order to get peace’.