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?
Which nation doesn’t have a similar record of fuck-all-y’all-poors, though? We (the global population of humans getting crushed, broken, used up, and otherwise sundered bodily by the rich) outnumber them by plural orders of magnitude, but at least we have a non-zero number of complete anons & bots (mostly?🤷🏼♂️) to pump our outrage into the keyboard for/with, eh? Otherwise, the oppressing class might really have a tough time, ya know? Golly, wouldn’t they. 🤦🏼♂️🥲
This needs some work to reconcile with how Trump appears to act towards the pretty poor Russia vs the wealthy EU, though.
Likely he’s just personally uncomfortable with powerful allies, and would rather have weak & subservient underlings. That this would leave the US worse off seems to be a sacrifice he’s willing to have the Americans make.
When his nomination went through it was clear we no longer had any legitimate opposition. Clown Secretary.
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.
Picture makes him look like a three-year-old told to smile.
Or a space lizard desperately trying to look human.
Wow he CRUMBLED?!?! We got him now!!! The resistance is rolling! \s
Things are so happening
These weasels 🙄
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.
