Germany's Merz spoke with Trump about buying Patriots for Ukraine

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Source: Reuters

July 4, 2025 10:56 AM EDT Updated 8 hours ago


BERLIN, July 4 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz discussed his country's offer to buy Patriot air defence systems for Ukraine with U.S. President Donald Trump by phone on Thursday, according to a government spokesperson.

Merz initiated the call with Trump to promote arms deliveries to Ukraine, particularly Patriots, after the Pentagon paused some shipments, the spokesperson told Reuters on Friday. Spiegel magazine first reported the phone call.

Germany was in "intensive talks" to buy Patriots for Ukraine to help it counter some of the heaviest Russian attacks since the war began in 2022, the spokesperson said earlier on Friday at a press conference. "There are various ways to fill this Patriot gap," the spokesperson told journalists, adding that one option being considered was buying the Patriot missile batteries in the United States and then sending them on to Kyiv.

The U.S. has paused shipments of certain critical weapons to Ukraine including 30 Patriot air defence missiles, sources told Reuters this week, due to low stockpiles, prompting warnings by Kyiv this would weaken its ability to defend itself. Germany has sent three of the U.S.-made systems from its military stocks to Ukraine, and Defence Minister Boris Pistorius last month launched an initiative to chase down more of them at the Ramstein group of some 50 nations.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/germany-talks-buy-patriots-ukraine-after-us-pause-2025-07-04/

[Irish_Dem]

1. This is why Trump does not want to give the missiles directly to Ukraine.

He wants Europe to buy them.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Europe has been supplying quite a bit to them

but obviously the U.S. weapons are much more sophisticated and much of what we have given to Ukraine has been via their own purchases for it and by their taking out loans from us to buy the stuff (where we are obviously fronting the money for that).

[Irish_Dem]

3. It looks like Trump wants to see US missiles to Europe.

For a nice profit.
Which of course may benefit him personally.

[blue-wave]

4. Why, after almost 4 years of a

bloody, genocidal war against Ukraine is this even being "discussed?" Ukrainians are a freedom loving people and Putin is not....FULL F'ING STOP!!! Nothing to discuss here, it's elementary. Stop the killing of innocent Ukrainian children and seniors and women and men. What ever happened to the world's moral compass?

[et tu]

5. pssst i know where you

can buy a moral compass with the prez's
name and pic on it, made in the usa of china
for only $89.99.
a real steal...