US President Donald Trump has imposed Europe a change in security policy. In the past hours, his government made clear that the priorities of the United States will be somewhere else in the future. In Moscow, the new course welcomed openly.
The United States rehearses the withdrawal from Europe based on Ukraine. The concessions of Kiev are inevitable-this includes the distance from NATO testing, according to the announcement of Washington. Moreover, Europeans are largely exclusively a duty to support Ukraine against Russia and to protect military peace.
The US Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth presented the explosive performances on Wednesday during a Ukraine meeting in Brussels, where arms deliveries had to be coordinated for Kiev.
Trump approaches Putin
However, the appointment became a kind of ultimatum. Last year NATO of Ukraine had guaranteed a top in Washington that his path to membership was irreversible. However, Trump sees it completely different. He called Vladimir Putin Public and is planning to work “Eng” with the Kremlin in the future.
The return to the Ukrainian borders before 2014 “” The pursuit of this illusory goal will only extend the war and cause more suffering, “said his Minister of Defense Hegseeth. Russia is currently checking a fifth of the Ukrainian state area.
The United States are also not ready to offer soldiers to secure a peace solution. “A permanent peace for Ukraine must contain solid security guarantees to ensure that the war does not flar up again,” said Hegseeth.
European and other troops should be used for such security guarantees. “No American troops are sent to Ukraine.” He excluded NATO.
US wants “fatal” NATO
“The United States will continue to work for NATO alliance and the Defense partnership with Europe-without IFS and Buts,” Hegseeth emphasized. “But the United States will no longer tolerate an unbalanced relationship.” NATO partners should invest considerably more in their defense.
Hegseeth previously asked NATO to change the course. “NATO must be a stronger, fatal strength – not a diplomatic club,” he wrote in the online service X on Wednesday. He published a photo of his arrival at the Brussels head office. NATO sees itself as a purely “defensive alliance”. The new Pentagon boss is a visit to Brussels.
Small sounds from Europe
Trump’s controversial defense minister did not get a big headwind. On the contrary, according to Secretary -General Mark Rutte, NATO agrees with Trump that there must be more charging distribution between the United States and European allies in military aid for Ukraine.
Great -Britain promised the United States to take considerably more military responsibility. “We have heard his call to the European countries to participate. We and we will do that, “said the British Minister of Defense John Healey according to Hegseeth’s statements. You will do more for European safety and more for defense issues.
There was only some resistance from Paris. “It is up to the Ukrainians to determine the parameters of a peace agreement,” said French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot. There can be no fair peace for Ukraine if the Europeans were not included in the negotiations, Barrot said.
Moscow welcomed a new course
The appearance of Hegseeth received approval in Moscow. “The statements of the Pentagon boss can become a cold shower for Senskyj,” said the head of the external committee in the Russian parliament, Leonid Sluzki, according to the Tass news agency. Hegseeth’s assessment of the situation on the battlefield is “pretty realistic”, praised Sluzki, who is also party leader of the nationalist populist LDPR.
The new priorities of the US government were careful. Sluzki, however, rejected the proposal of a Western peace force to secure the front line. Even when the United States were avoided, this only leads to freeze the conflict and a possible refueling of Kiev for a revenge, said the high -ranking politician in Moscow.
No plans for the American troop deduction of Europe
Hegseeth played fears about a deduction of the approximately 100,000 American troops from Europe. “There are currently no plans in preparation to shorten anything,” he emphasized. However, the United States wanted to “put his military presence on the test worldwide” to be able to concentrate more on China’s ambitions in the in -in -in -the -stuff. Europe is only a secondary location for the United States, which has been impressed in recent hours.
Source: Krone
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