US defence secretary says Europe should lead in defending Ukraine and that restoring pre-2014 borders is unrealistic

Pete Hegseth, speaking to defence ministers at a lunchtime meeting in Brussels, said Europe had to provide “the overwhelming share” of future military aid to Kyiv – and recognise that restoring Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders was unrealistic.

The Pentagon chief said he was “here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States of America from being primarily focused on the security of Europe”, though the language was notably toned down from a draft briefed in advance to the press.

That had said the US was no longer “the primary guarantor of security in Europe” and appeared to suggest a recasting of the 75-year-old Nato alliance, created after the second world war to protect western Europe from the Soviet bloc.

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    vor 20 Stunden

    Dudes about to willingly just let NATO, which we made to contain Russia, not do its job. Fucken idiots. We lost the cold war.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    vor 20 Stunden

    First of all, this is a horrible move.

    The Pentagon chief said he was “here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States of America from being primarily focused on the security of Europe”,

    Second, this means we’re drastically reducing US Defense spending and putting that money into free healthcare for our population, right?

    • bier@feddit.nlEnglish
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      vor 17 Stunden

      Trumps massive tax cuts for the rich from his first term are almost ending, he needs a lot of money to renew them.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        vor 16 Stunden

        Trumps massive tax cuts for the rich from his first term are almost ending, he needs a lot of money to renew them.

        The trump tax cuts for the rich were in the form of commercial taxation. Those were permanent and aren’t ending. The rich get their cuts by reduction in corporate taxes in the form of dividends or increased stock value of the companies they hold.

        The tax cuts for the middle class are the temporary ones that are ending.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      vor 18 Stunden

      Well, sort of.

      Except we’ll probably see increased spending directed towards Anduril and the like, as well as putting the money we didn’t save into the pockets of billionaires anyways, and then cut even more public funding because “how will we pay for all this 🥴”

    • Snot FlickermanEnglish
      16·
      vor 21 Stunden

      Except this time we got nutjobs all over the world who don’t give a fuck about Mutually Assured Destruction and they all got nukes.

      • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        vor 19 Stunden

        they bravado like they dont, but they do.

        my true fear here is when the worst of these nuclear assholes finds a way to deter their opponents missiles…

  • Tiefling IRLEnglish
    13·
    vor 19 Stunden

    US is too busy focused on persecuting women and minorities in the US

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      vor 17 Stunden

      Could someone please think of the men? All I keep hearing from this administration is how to grab women by the pussy. For once, could a bunch of sexually deviant women of perfect body shape find me on public transportation and follow me to a dark alley with a deadened and then proceed to properly sexually abuse of my various body parts? Alright! Who’s with me?

      What about like a cat call or something when I drive by in my small Toyota hybrid. It’s very economic in gas. I you’re famous I’ll let you do it! Please!