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Secretary Hegseth: Ukraine Can’t Return to Old Borders, Will Not Be Part of NATO – Europeans Must Bear the Security Burden With No US Troops Acting as Peacemakers (VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit ^ | February 12, 2025 | Paul Serran

Posted on 02/12/2025 12:20:08 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man

Reuters reported:

“Speaking at a meeting of Ukraine’s military allies at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Hegseth delivered the clearest and bluntest public statement so far on the new U.S. administration’s approach to the nearly three-year-old war.

‘We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. But we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective’, Hegseth told the meeting of Ukrainian officials and more than 40 allies. ‘Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering’, he added.”

“He also told Washington’s NATO allies that they would have to step up and assume greater responsibility for Europe’s security. He said ‘stark strategic realities’, such U.S. border security issues and threats posed by China, prevented the U.S. from being ‘primarily focused on the security of Europe’.”

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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: europe; europeanunion; nato; petehegseth; putin; russia; trump; ukraine; zeepershasthesads; zeepersindespair; zeepersuicidewatch; zelenskyy
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth means business!
1 posted on 02/12/2025 12:20:08 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Maybe this will wake-up the Woke EU


2 posted on 02/12/2025 12:21:41 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

“Maybe this will wake-up the Woke EU”

Germany doesn’t even have enough rifles for it’s troops.


3 posted on 02/12/2025 12:23:38 PM PST by dljordan
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The post WWII world is well and truly dead, and that is a good thing.

The Soviet Union is gone.
The USA doesn’t want to be the official Protector of Europe.
Europe has weakened itself in every way possible and now has to get its act together and fend for itself.

This is glorious.


4 posted on 02/12/2025 12:24:21 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Hegseth: “ We want a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine”

Key point that. Needs to be understood.

Good idea for recompense from Russia for the billions we put out is US receives:

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Kamchatka Krai
Khabarovsk Krai
Magadan Oblast
Primorsky Krai

Japan and Taiwan get

Sakhalin Oblast

Russia can have some of the Eastern regions of Russian speaking Ukraine.

Ukraine pays us back with the minerals etc…


5 posted on 02/12/2025 12:25:22 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Hegseth: “ We want a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine”

Key point that. Needs to be understood.

Good idea for recompense from Russia for the billions we put out is US receives:

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Kamchatka Krai
Khabarovsk Krai
Magadan Oblast
Primorsky Krai

Japan and Taiwan get

Sakhalin Oblast

Russia can have some of the Eastern regions of Russian speaking Ukraine.

Ukraine pays us back with the minerals etc…


6 posted on 02/12/2025 12:25:22 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: dljordan

I heard they were using broom handles and say , Bang Bang and the really big guys run at you saying , TANK TANK TANK


7 posted on 02/12/2025 12:28:34 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: ifinnegan

This isn’t the 1930’s. You can’t just divide up other nations. Rewarding Putin for his aggression is a bad idea.


8 posted on 02/12/2025 12:30:57 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: popdonnelly

It’s nothing like what you’re saying. Ukraine was bad-ass Sovietski, in the day.

The collapse of the Soviet Union left Ukraine a mess. It has Soviet nuclear reactors and had Soviet nuclear missiles.

America’s Democrats are like flies that smelled a dumpster.


9 posted on 02/12/2025 12:36:55 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Here’s some war porn. Modern war looks fun, don’t you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3_AQt3HIgY


10 posted on 02/12/2025 12:42:19 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: butlerweave

No way. The EU will be reaching for the vapors hearing this. UNACCEPTABLE, they’ll all say.

They live in a fantasy world where signing a piece of paper solves the ‘climate crisis’, and Ukraine will NEVER surrender while Russia controls ANY Ukrainian territory.


11 posted on 02/12/2025 12:46:09 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim
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To: ifinnegan

Sounds intribuing.

I especially like the Japan part.


12 posted on 02/12/2025 12:48:15 PM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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"It has Soviet nuclear reactors and had Soviet nuclear missiles.

America’s Democrats are like flies that smelled a dumpster."

Ukraine could have been somebody.

It could have been a contender.

13 posted on 02/12/2025 12:50:36 PM PST by Right Brigade
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To: Right Brigade

Actually, I don’t think that’s true. Ukraine’s greatest days were propped up by the Soviet Union.


14 posted on 02/12/2025 12:53:17 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: ifinnegan

I hate to bring it to your attention but you posted the same thing twice .


15 posted on 02/12/2025 12:55:35 PM PST by POGO163
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To: Macho MAGA Man

For those not paying attention: This is Ukraine’s Death Sentence.

Europe, absent the US, is not capable of carrying out a proxy war against Russia, nor is it capable to policing a peace.

It’s not capable in political or material means.


16 posted on 02/12/2025 1:03:05 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: POGO163

Thanks.

Odd.


17 posted on 02/12/2025 1:04:10 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: popdonnelly

You think the US taking the Russian east is rewarding Putin?


18 posted on 02/12/2025 1:05:30 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Have you noticed that Russia has failed to take over Ukraine in 3 years? Or be kicked out of Russia in 6 months? Have you noticed Russia has lost over 850,000 soldiers and over 10,000 tanks. Have you noticed Ukraine has destroyed about 50% of Russia’s oil processing plants? Or that Russia has said they were going to use Nukes over 40 times, and still haven’t. Putin doesn’t believe his nukes would get out of the silos or hit the correct target.

Also, Russia does not prop up anything but the Kremlin. Russia doesn’t even prop up its own people. Why do you think the Russians were walking off with commodes early in the war?


19 posted on 02/12/2025 1:06:05 PM PST by POGO163
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To: ifinnegan

Good idea for recompense from Russia for the billions we put out is US receives:

So we spend billions attacking them. And they have to reimburse us for that? That would be an interesting negotiation to observe.


20 posted on 02/12/2025 1:07:10 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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