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FULL SPEECH: The US secretary of defense Hegseth says:
X ^ | 2/12/25 | Pete Hegseth

Posted on 02/12/2025 8:46:44 AM PST by hardspunned

- The Bloodbath Must End

- Returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic goal and pursuing this false goal will only increase suffering

- The US does not believe that Ukraine's membership in NATO is a realistic outcome of the upcoming negotiations

- If there are any peacekeepers in Ukraine, it will not be under the auspices of NATO and not in accordance with Article 5 of the Charter

- US troops will not go to Ukraine, US military presence cannot be part of security guarantees

- It is Europe that should provide Ukraine with more military aid

- 2% is not enough, Trump calls on Europe to increase military spending to 5% of GDP

- The US is facing threats to its own borders and will focus on protecting them

- Communist China is a threat to US borders and US prioritizes such threats

- The US will no longer tolerate NATO's unequal defense policies that create dependency

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NATO is a dead man walking. Thank Goodness!
1 posted on 02/12/2025 8:46:44 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

Federal Judge rescinding Hegseth’s speech and ordering Ukraine be brought into NATO by Friday in 3...2....1


2 posted on 02/12/2025 8:50:32 AM PST by suasponte137
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To: hardspunned

Finally, an official statement of fact:

US’s Project Ukraine which was covertly started in 2014 is DEAD! DEAD! DEAD!

….To senile Joe and his Ukie war supporters, Trump’s administration has exposed the historic corrupted nation of Ukraine and it goes down as senile Joe’s largest debacle.


3 posted on 02/12/2025 8:57:06 AM PST by delta7
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To: suasponte137

Yep! Sadly, it’s going to be 4 years of lawfare on steroids!

Which means the Supremes are going to be the ones making the final call. And with Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh there it’ll be a crap shoot.


4 posted on 02/12/2025 8:58:54 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: hardspunned
Be careful what you wish for.

US dominance of NATO has granted us the post WWII peace, stability and no nuclear wars.

Europe has a very bad history on this and with nuclear weapons, an ocean between us and a hostile power don't mean squat.

5 posted on 02/12/2025 9:01:32 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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“We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine,” Hegseth told a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels

“A durable peace for Ukraine must include robust security guarantees to ensure that the war will not begin again. This must not be Minsk 3.0,” he said, referring to the first and second Minsk accords that tried and failed to stop the fighting in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and 2015.

6 posted on 02/12/2025 9:03:39 AM PST by tlozo
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To: rdcbn1

Europe can conscript the millions of newly arrived military aged males from Syria, Pakistan, and every other middle east sh!thole, and go send them to fight the red horde.

Just tell them there will be a bunch of British underage white girls at the front line...they’ll probably handle their own transportation to get there.


7 posted on 02/12/2025 9:07:15 AM PST by suasponte137
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To: suasponte137

Why the heck not? The robed authoritarian masters have done more outrageous things.

The dems are still living in the past if they think they can shield these judicial insurrectionists from public scrutiny. X voided that fascist capability of theirs.


8 posted on 02/12/2025 9:15:17 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: hardspunned

“NATO is a dead man walking.”

So is Zelensky. He may even start to realize it soon.

There is no effin’ way Europe will take this on. They will not adequately expand their collective militaries, and their political will is exhausted.

Ukraine is history.


9 posted on 02/12/2025 9:17:14 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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““We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine,” Hegseth told a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels”

Yet he knows Europe cannot and will not deliver it.

The only peace Ukraine will see is the one Russia grants it.


10 posted on 02/12/2025 9:19:47 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To the victors go the spoils. USAID/CIA should have never started this war in 2014 if they couldn’t finish it.


11 posted on 02/12/2025 9:22:01 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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This is about 20 years overdue. Better late than never.


12 posted on 02/12/2025 9:23:00 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: rdcbn1
US dominance of NATO has granted us the post WWII peace, stability and no nuclear wars.

It has also resulted in Europe becoming a panty-waist continent which spends almost nothing to defend itself. This has allowed Europeans to create ridiculous welfare states that have turned their people into comfort serfs willing to trade away their liberty for an easy life.

Europe needs a stern wake-up call. Hopefully, this is it.
13 posted on 02/12/2025 9:25:38 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: hardspunned

UN must be in same frame, IMO


14 posted on 02/12/2025 9:31:02 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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USAID/CIA should have never started this war in 2014

LOL, its was the CIA that invaded Crimea in 2014 and seized it for Russia? Okay

Masked soldiers in unmarked green uniforms carry Russian military equipment and weapons in Crimea, March 2014


15 posted on 02/12/2025 9:51:47 AM PST by tlozo
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To: tlozo
Who gives a shit about Euro Wars, 2014, 1860, 1650, they’re all the same.

EuroWankers, EuroWars, EuroWhores. No one cares. 😂

16 posted on 02/12/2025 9:59:06 AM PST by OldHarbor
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