Posted on 02/12/2025 9:43:54 AM PST by ransomnote
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that it is “unrealistic” to aim for a return to Ukraine’s borders as they were before 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and supported separatists who took over swaths of the country’s east.
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“To be clear, as part of any security guarantee, there will not be U.S. troops deployed to Ukraine,” he said.
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Trump will seek to pressure the Kremlin by “unleashing American energy production” and thus throttling Russian exports that fund its war machine, Hegseth said. But he made clear that European nations would be required to provide most of the military support for Ukraine — which is currently underwritten by Washington more than any other nation.
He said he was in Brussels to “directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe,” he said. “The United States faces consequential threats to our homeland. We must — and we are — focusing on securing our own borders.”
Watch them Zeepers like UMC_Mom and Marcus-the-paid shrill, go bonkers!
Please. Take up a collection for their meds.
Obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together about the situation, but I am glad he said it out loud.
Off topic but: Tulsi just got her confirmation.
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Nah, Marcus just finds an article with a positive spin, like the one where the president spoke to z for a whole hour! :)
In the end, Ukraine will lose land, NATO will lose nothing and the Ukrainian people will find out what suckers they’ve been.
Oh, and a few thousand criminals from Ukraien will live happily ever after with the billions stolen from the US taxpayer
Who was president with his hands in the Ukraine moneybags at the time???
Good. I hope not one more penny to Ukraine from the US.
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