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The chairman of EKRE, Martin Helme, said in Vikerradio's program "Välistund" that the peace plan of Donald Trump, who is again running for president, provides for the handover of the occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia, and this would ensure that war does not reach Estonia. According to Helme, if Kamala Harris wins, Estonians would be sent to war against Russia together with other countries of the eastern wing of Europe. According to Helme, Trump has essentially stated that he will force the Ukrainians to make peace with Russia, threatening to withdraw support from Ukraine otherwise. "In this way, nothing would be left of Ukraine, and the Russians would probably retain the areas that they have conquered. This is actually Trump's peace plan," said Helme. "This means that the war will not reach us," emphasized Helme. "If Harris wins, if he is rigged to win, then there is a very high probability that the eastern wing of Europe will be directed to help Ukraine put pressure on Russia. In other words, in such a case, the Americans want Estonians, Finns, Poles, Romanians to go to war with Russia to help Ukraine. I do not agree that we are the expendable material that will be sent to the fire to save the democrats' foreign political face," said Helme. Helme said that while Russia has gotten its military industry up and running, the West has not done so to this day. According to him, the warehouses of European countries and Estonia are empty of military equipment and ammunition. "The reality is that if peace is not concluded immediately, the other half of Ukraine will be lost as well. The Russians have received help from Iran, China, North Korea, in fact half of the global south has been left behind. And the West is 15 percent of the world, it has not started its military industry and there is no political readiness to enter into a direct conflict between NATO countries and Russia," said Helme. If the Russians do not agree to peace on these terms, Trump threatens to go all out to help Ukraine. Speaking about who is keeping his fingers crossed for whom, Helme said that he hopes for Trump's victory. "Of course, I keep my fingers crossed for Trump and I have no doubt that Trump will win the election for the third time, the question is whether he will succeed in getting into office, because the American electoral system is something completely different than we imagine," said Helme. According to Helme, it is actually known from Trump's previous term what Trump's handwriting was in both foreign policy and economic policy. "The fact that he wrote tweets at 5 o'clock in the morning, which made the whole world discuss the matter, is one side of the matter. His policy was actually very rational and useful for us in terms of Estonia," said Helme. "The same can be said about Kamala Harris. He has been in the White House for four years next to Joe Biden. And after sidelining Biden on the campaign trail, he has repeatedly told the media that he wouldn't change anything about his policies over the past three and a half years. The platform of his administration is actually in front of our eyes," continued Helme. Helme said that the war in Ukraine was poorly conducted during the time of Biden and Harris as a result of the withdrawal of US soldiers from Afghanistan, because the great powers of the world no longer took America seriously. "The direct consequence of this was the war in Ukraine," said Helme. "We have before our eyes four years of clumsy, inept and aimless foreign and security policy under the leadership of the Democrats, which Trump has very fiercely criticized precisely in the sense that America is not feared, America is not taken seriously. And you can't take seriously a military whose main focus is promoting transgender admirals and making culture war the main focus of the military," said Helme. The US presidential election will be held on November 5, and the results will be announced on the morning of October 6. Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, and Kamala Harris, representing the Democrats, are facing each other.