Summary
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth struggled to answer what Russia would concede in Ukraine peace talks, instead defending the Trump administration’s negotiations.
His comments at NATO suggested Ukraine would have to give up NATO membership and lost territory, sparking backlash. Critics, including John Bolton, argued the deal was Kremlin propaganda.
Hegseth later attempted to walk back his remarks, but experts said he had already ceded too much to Russia.
Trump’s denial of ordering a retraction failed to quell concerns over Hegseth’s inexperience and the administration’s approach.
America crumbles to Russia whenever Trump is in charge. This is no different.
Let’s be honest here, it’s any time Republicans are in charge now.
Wow he CRUMBLED?!?! We got him now!!! The resistance is rolling! \s
Things are so happening
This backstab should permanently damage any credibility the US has as an ally. If you are smart, you will never rely on the US in international affairs.
It should have permanently damaged the reputation when he sold out the Kurds to Erdogan too, but unfortunately rallying with the US is like dating someone with multiple personality disorder and every 4 years a new one is revealed.
Our people learned it early and heavily. Generations on, the lesson is still clear.
Since 1776, the United States government has violated or broken over 500 Native American and First Nations treaties that were ratified by the senate and signed by the president.
Why would anyone trust a nation with a track record of 249 years of duplicity?
Which nation doesn’t have a similar record of fuck-all-y’all-poors, though? We (the global population of humans getting crushed, broken, used up, and otherwise sundered bodily by the rich) outnumber them by plural orders of magnitude, but at least we have a non-zero number of complete anons & bots (mostly?🤷🏼♂️) to pump our outrage into the keyboard for/with, eh? Otherwise, the oppressing class might really have a tough time, ya know? Golly, wouldn’t they. 🤦🏼♂️🥲
This needs some work to reconcile with how Trump appears to act towards the pretty poor Russia vs the wealthy EU, though.
Likely he’s just personally uncomfortable with powerful allies, and would rather have weak & subservient underlings. That this would leave the US worse off seems to be a sacrifice he’s willing to have the Americans make.
The russians are already talking about how they can now openly attack Europe with the US out of the way: https://www.thedailybeast.com/laughing-kremlin-insiders-say-trump-has-given-putin-greenlight-to-expand-the-war/
Sure lol. Putin is fighting to keep Ukraine out of NATO so he can start a war with NATO.
There is this weird idea that maybe somehow Russia has this amazing hidden stockpile of troops and modern weapons underground or something which sounds implausible. Like we can see their losses from fuckin space and all their ships were sinking in port before the war.
Its almost like Ukraine has no say in the matter. They are a sovereign country and can do what they want, no matter what Hegseth says.
Trump believes, wrongly, that without US support Ukraine is lost.
The EU now takes over as the leader of the free world.
I fucking hope so but not seen as much action as I would like from most EU leaders
Yeah, most leaders here are busy tooting their own horns and aren’t focused on bigger geopolitics stuff yet… Like ffs, here in NL all they elected a right wing government and, surprise surprise, they’re shit at their job. Can’t get legislation passed, constant infighting, unpopular policies (for part of our population at least, unfortunately we also have a lot of idiots that voted for this), the list goes on.
I wish that Europe would step up more. The European Union is quite good at doing things bigger picture but they’re very slow and bureaucratic at times, could be nice if they improved a bit on that.
The sad/funny part is that the nations that would be Russia’s next prime targets are also some of the smallest in Europe. So we’re already doing most of what we can do here in the Baltics, but we can’t give ALL our military equipment away, Putin would just come for us next and at this rate, I don’t know if Article 5 can be relied upon with Trump in charge of the US. Fuck, maybe he’ll give orders to the American troops in our bases to start sabotaging local equipment before a Russian attack, then tell 'em to start shooting their (former) allies. If something like that were to happen, I just hope that there are enough links in the chain of command with integrity, that would tell their superiors to fuck off.
Yes! the EU will be the leader of the free world and China will take over as the most powerful nation. China already leaping into the vacuum left by the cancellation of USAID. Once lost those countries will never not be US allies again.
They should make a NATO without the US
Picture makes him look like a three-year-old told to smile.
Or a space lizard desperately trying to look human.
When his nomination went through it was clear we no longer had any legitimate opposition. Clown Secretary.
Be nice to him. He was only on his third bottle of the day when he was asked.
A deal is when Ukraine also benefits something from it. From these “peace” talks, Ukraine only has loss and russia has time to recover for new attacks. Also usually you demand peace from the aggressor, which in this case it’s russia.
My guess is that he negotiated to get a gold colored pillow for him, Trump, and the rest of the Republicans to use.
These weasels 🙄
