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Top EU official starts crying on the stage during hsi speech, from the very idea of America not paying for Europe's defense. Another top German official threatens to deny President Trump the Nobel Peace Prize if President Trump signs peace agreement with Putin. Meanwhile other German officials threaten to jail people for making social media posts. Europeans are just used to free money from America, but its going to get cut off. tears from them or not, Worth watching.

According to JD Vance, the Trump administration is very concerned about the state of European securityMUNICH, February 14. /TASS/. The United States believes that the biggest threat to Europe’s security is coming neither from Russia nor from China, but is inside Europe, US Vice President JD Vance said at the Munich Security Conference. "The Trump administration is very concerned about the state of European security, and we hope that we can reach a rational agreement between Russia and Ukraine," he said, adding that Europe should dramatically increase its defense spending in the coming years. "The threat that worries me the...

when "things have calmed down" to "cut our military budget in half"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would love to have Russia return to the Group of Seven nations, saying it was a mistake for Moscow to be expelled.Russia had been a member of the G7 club of industrialized democracies, then known as the G8, until Moscow was excluded following its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region in 2014."I'd love to have them back. I think it was a mistake to throw them out. Look, it's not a question of liking Russia or not liking Russia. It was the G8," Trump said at the White House when...

BRUSSELS (AP) — In just one speech by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week, the most powerful member of NATO has thrown the world’s biggest military alliance into disarray, raising troubling questions about America’s commitment to European security.Hegseth told almost 50 of Ukraine ’s Western backers on Wednesday that he had joined their meeting “to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States of America from being primarily focused on the security of Europe.”“The United States faces consequential threats to our homeland. We must — and we are — focusing on security of our own...

President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he sympathized with the Russian position that Ukraine should not be part of NATO, and he lamented that he will not meet Russian President Vladimir Putin before his inauguration. Speaking at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club, Trump also blamed outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden for allegedly changing the U.S. position on NATO membership for Ukraine. "A big part of the problem is, Russia - for many, many years, long before Putin - said, 'You could never have NATO involved with Ukraine.' Now, they've said that. That's been, like, written in stone," Trump...

As we approach the momentous return of Donald J. Trump to the US Presidency, preparations are reportedly in course to get Ukraine ready for the ‘day-after’ the war. A report from Spanish paper El Mundo (behind a paywall) shows the Western powers preparing a ‘golden exile’ in London for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. That would follow a ‘peace agreement’ with Russia, according to ‘rumors’ emanating from Ukrainian diplomats. Conflict Watcher reported: “The newspaper claims that Ukrainian diplomats believe Zelensky is expected to be sent to London while Ukraine gears up for presidential and parliamentary elections. The term ‘golden exile’ refers...