Posted on 06/03/2025 4:54:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
For the first time since the U.S. created an international group to coordinate military aid to Ukraine three years ago, America’s Pentagon chief will not be in attendance when more than 50 other defense leaders meet Wednesday.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who returned from a national security conference in Singapore on Sunday, will not arrive in Brussels until Wednesday evening, after the Ukraine Defense Contact Group’s meeting is over.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss scheduling details, confirmed that Hegseth also will not participate by video conference.
It is the latest in a series of steps that the U.S. has taken to distance itself from the Ukraine war effort. And it comes on the heels of French President Emmanuel Macron’s warning at the security conference last weekend that the U.S. and others risk a dangerous double standard if their concentration on a potential conflict with China is done at the cost of abandoning Ukraine.
France and other NATO nations are concerned that the U.S. is considering withdrawing troops from Europe to shift them to the Indo-Pacific. Macron said abandoning Ukraine would eventually erode U.S. credibility in deterring any potential conflict with China over Taiwan.
Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin, created the group after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Since then, more than 50 member nations have collectively provided Ukraine with some $126 billion in weapons and military assistance, including over $66.5 billion from the U.S.
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Yes. Do more of that.
The living money tree...
EU countries have given $73B in war efforts aid to Ukraine.
They have bought $233B in Russian oil or gas over the same time.
Europe is not serious and obviously does not support Ukraine.
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Mike Engleman
Republicans are calling for Lindsey Graham to repay over $400K of taxpayer funds he used for his Ukraine trip.
A trip that he approved himself as Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
Better yet, Majority Leader Thune should remove him from the committee!
https://x.com/RealHickory/status/1929958569245352334
A few hours before the negotiations, Ukraine struck a base with nuclear armed submarines, 5 bases with strategic bombers, dynamited a passenger train and a freight train.
He planned all this and had it ready as he sat in the Oval Office lying to President Trump. After the attack he mocked Trump.
His gambit for an over the top Russian response has failed. Now he is alone. He will be dead or deposed in a coup very soon.
Seems like he does not understand he is our vassal and thought he could manipulate Trump and Hegseth.
Now his calls go unanswered.
Excellent.🇺🇸
Is there any way both sides can lose?
Because that would be great.
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About time, but the bastards will operate behind his back because they are criminals.
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C3
6/3/25
Well well well…
Here’s a video of warmonger Lindsey Graham getting everything wrong about Iraq.
He pushed for war in Iraq just like he’s pushing for war in Ukraine.
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https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/1930013560014344397
Nobody wins in a war. Losses are all that really happens.
$66.5 billion.
Good. Send a message.
$66.5 billion. If you spent $1 million a day, it would take 65,000 days—roughly 178 years. Don't spend it all on fireworks.
The globalists need a war with Russia to cling to power.
Don’t let them have it.
“Macron said abandoning Ukraine would eventually erode U.S. credibility in deterring any potential conflict with China over Taiwan.”
France, the cheese eating surrender monkeys, lecturing us on credibility. This is too much.
After winning the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington famously stated, “Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle won.” He also said, “I don’t know what it is to lose a battle, but certainly nothing can be more painful than to gain one with the loss of so many of one’s friends.”
Duke of Wellington
Given that you had your lips sewn to Ukraine’s ass at first, it’s nice to see you coming around.
Posting with the Zeeper fools was a really bad look.
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