U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's speech on Ukraine this week has thrown NATO into disarray. It raised troubling questions about America’s commitment to European security.

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.”

  • Maiq
    483·
    1 day ago

    Russia owns the US now, the government is now quasi openly putins bitch. Our old allies need to prepare for the worst! War is coming. EU needs to protect Ukraine and make damn sure it’s an overwhelming defeat for russia as Ukraine is already on the front lines of the war.

    • DarthKaren@lemmy.world
      191·
      1 day ago

      Russia won the cold war. Reagan, that piece of shit, would be turning over in his grave. Especially since he removed the final road blocks.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        1 day ago

        American capitalist doing American capitalism Americanly

        “Holy shit, this is just like living in the USSR.”

        Trump has very nakedly and explicitly said he wants to increase arms sales to Europe and is holding US support in NATO hostage to this effect. This is entirely because the Silicon Valley tech sector has gone long on US arms sales and wants to make the Big Number Go Up.

        Peter Thiel’s plan to shove Palantir down the throats of every Olaf, Macron, and Meloni isn’t an insidious Russian plot to reconquer Bulgaria. Its the American MIC trying to squeeze a bit more profit out of the periphery one more time.