Experts say Trump's plan to license Patriot missiles for Ukraine could take years [View all]
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Source: ABC News
Defense experts cautioned that President Donald Trump's offer to license Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles would take years to materialize and do little to address its immediate needs.
"The problem is that these things aren't like flipping on a light switch," said Bradley Bowman, a scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute that focuses on foreign policy and national security. "You can devote the money necessary, but that's not going to manifest itself and increase production capacity for a significant period of time."
"Unfortunately, time is, in many cases, the thing you don't have," he added.
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Several national security experts said granting the license appeared to be an optics play from the White House and warned it wouldn't address Ukraine's imminent needs.
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