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Pete Hegseth tells NATO that a return to Ukraine's 2014 borders is 'unrealistic' (www.nbcnews.com)

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that restoring Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is “unrealistic,” signaling a shift in U.S. policy toward negotiated settlements.

Speaking at NATO headquarters, he argued that pursuing full territorial recovery would prolong the war and emphasized the need for security guarantees without NATO membership or U.S. troops in Ukraine.

Hegseth outlined Trump’s approach of reducing Russian war funding through increased U.S. energy production while shifting more military support responsibility to Europe.

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[–] scarabic 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Trump is all about shifting defense responsibility onto Europe but isn’t it the case that the US proactively claimed responsibility for defense of virtually every sphere where it has interests? We have the largest military in the world by FAR and bases everywhere, and have allowed others to spend less on defense because we want to be the ones with the big stick. It’s a little ironic for Trump to complain that everyone has allowed us to pursue this policy we have been driving for decades.

[–] Dead_or_Alive -2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Lol sorry, every nation in Europe is a sovereign entity and is responsible for the safety of their citizens and the integrity of their borders.

Poland made the decision to arm itself and has been spending for years. Lack of investment in the military is fundamentally a national decision to divert money into other programs or tax cuts.

The US has been becoming less and less interested in the rules based order we built after WW2 for the last 20 years.

Many people have predicted this would happen. You have only yourselves to blame.

[–] FelixCress 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't like what you said but sadly it is true - we should have invested much more in the defence and start permanent sanctions on Russia since Chechnya war.

That doesn't distract from the fact that Trump is a cunt working hand in hand with Putler.

[–] Dead_or_Alive 1 points 2 minutes ago

I 100% agree.

For at least the next 4 years I would not count on the US honoring any security arrangements. Any intelligence shared with us is likely going to be passed to Russia.