Summary
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth struggled to answer what Russia would concede in Ukraine peace talks, instead defending the Trump administration’s negotiations.
His comments at NATO suggested Ukraine would have to give up NATO membership and lost territory, sparking backlash. Critics, including John Bolton, argued the deal was Kremlin propaganda.
Hegseth later attempted to walk back his remarks, but experts said he had already ceded too much to Russia.
Trump’s denial of ordering a retraction failed to quell concerns over Hegseth’s inexperience and the administration’s approach.
This backstab should permanently damage any credibility the US has as an ally. If you are smart, you will never rely on the US in international affairs.
It should have permanently damaged the reputation when he sold out the Kurds to Erdogan too, but unfortunately rallying with the US is like dating someone with multiple personality disorder and every 4 years a new one is revealed.
Our people learned it early and heavily. Generations on, the lesson is still clear.
Since 1776, the United States government has violated or broken over 500 Native American and First Nations treaties that were ratified by the senate and signed by the president.
Why would anyone trust a nation with a track record of 249 years of duplicity?
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Sure lol. Putin is fighting to keep Ukraine out of NATO so he can start a war with NATO.
There is this weird idea that maybe somehow Russia has this amazing hidden stockpile of troops and modern weapons underground or something which sounds implausible. Like we can see their losses from fuckin space and all their ships were sinking in port before the war.
Be nice to him. He was only on his third bottle of the day when he was asked.
A deal is when Ukraine also benefits something from it. From these “peace” talks, Ukraine only has loss and russia has time to recover for new attacks. Also usually you demand peace from the aggressor, which in this case it’s russia.
America crumbles to Russia whenever Trump is in charge. This is no different.
Let’s be honest here, it’s any time Republicans are in charge now.
My guess is that he negotiated to get a gold colored pillow for him, Trump, and the rest of the Republicans to use.
