‘Trip Into Nuclear War’: Bannon Sounds the Alarm on Report Trump Wants to Give Ukraine Long-Range Missiles to Bomb Moscow

Steve Bannon, the former Trump White House advisor turned MAGA podcaster, warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s new hardline against Russia, detailed in a bombshell Financial Times report, could lead to a “trip into a nuclear war.”

On his War Room show, Bannon discussed Trump’s evolution in recent weeks, which resulted in the president announcing a new weapons package to Ukraine and a 50-day deadline for Vladimir Putin to come to a ceasefire or face new economic sanctions.

“President Trump then, on Thursday, the third of July, had an hour-and-a-half or two-hour call—or maybe longer—with Putin, and he said afterwards it was quite… it was a very disturbing call. We now know more details about it,” Bannon began, adding:

I think Axios reported that Putin said, “Hey, look, you took your shot at trying to get to a ceasefire. We’ve got it from here. This is really a bilateral situation. And essentially, butt out. We’ve got this, and we’re going to figure this out.” President Trump is very disturbed about that.

That evening on the third, in Kiev, a massive air bombardment — drones, missiles, aircraft — bombarded Kiev, I think in one of the worst bombardments in the war. President Trump very, very upset since he had tried to bring peace to the areas we’ve talked about.

The next day, and this is what the Financial Times story of this morning reports, the president had a call with [Volodymyr] Zelensky, and according to the Financial Times — and not refuted by the White House as of yet — and this is with unnamed sources, White House personnel that were there and are knowledgeable about the phone call, said President Trump brought up the topic to Zelensky about long-range American missiles and, quote, ‘Basically, if we provide these to you, can you use these to hit Moscow and St. Petersburg?’

And Zelensky said, ‘Absolutely, we can hit Petersburg and Moscow, St. Petersburg and Moscow.’ As you know, and the article actually alludes to this, there are many people in the national security apparatus that have been very concerned about Ukraine’s ability to control itself, or elements in the Ukrainian government’s ability to control itself.

And they brought up ‘Spider Web,’ which we talked about with Mike Benz yesterday, about the drone assault on the strategic triad—the bombers of Russia—which is the way you kind of trip into a nuclear war.

Bannon, along with Tucker Carlson, was one of the leading voices against Trump’s airstrikes on Iran last month, but unlike Carlson, Bannon rarely attacks Trump directly. Bannon, instead, has continued to claim that the “deep state” is pushing Trump to pursue overseas military intervention.

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