U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump could create a $500 billion lend-lease program for Ukraine if he wins the election, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote in an article for The Wall Street Journal, Paralel.Az reports.

“Instead of burdening U.S. taxpayers with new bills, let Ukraine borrow as much as it needs to buy American weapons to defeat Russia,” Pompeo said, explaining what a successful plan for resolving the conflict in Ukraine that Trump can implement might look like.

The former Secretary of State recalled that the same tools were used by the United States to help Great Britain in World War II before the Japanese military attacked the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The attack ended with a decisive tactical victory for Japan and served as a pretext for the US entry into the war.

Pompeo also suggested that Trump remove all restrictions on the types of weapons that Ukraine can receive and use, as well as impose "real sanctions" against Russia (the Russian authorities consider the restrictions illegitimate and illegal).

Ukraine, according to his plan, will recover at the expense of "reparations from the frozen assets of the Central Bank of Russia, and not at the expense of the US dollars of the taxpayers." Sanctions against Russia will be lifted if Ukraine joins NATO and the EU.