An former Deputy Secretary of NATO said that the United States and the West “should barely repel” Russia’s requests.
Going to Jayne Secker of Sky News after Pete Hegseth said “not realistic” for Ukraine returns to his borders before 2014, Dr. Jamie Shea said: “I don’t think it’s not a surprise.
“The army scenario is in favor of Russia and not Ucranalay.
He added that Vladimir Putin needs more than the territory and said that “the United States and the West will have to grow again” opposite to other requests.
Dr. Shea then said that the Russian leader “perfectly capable of negotiating consistently and fighting at the same time. “
He added: “Putin has been transparent that he is in a position to be provided and negotiated at any time, provided it is purely and only in its conditions. “
By Ivor Bennett, Moscow correspondent
I think Moscow will be too worried about the caution of Mark Rutte, that a Russian attack against NATO will cause a “devastating” reaction (see our position 12. 13).
In any case, he likes it.
This is Kremlin likes to paint the West as the aggressor.
He blamed NATO and his old east, for having caused the war in Ukraine.
According to Vladimir Putin, his forces are on the defensive.
Therefore, every time governments and Western politicians use a language like Rutte, Russia tends to use it in this false history, stating that it is the West who is to blame for the climb.
An previous example in the day at the Kremlin Convention with journalists.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov asked about the Danish intelligence warning that Russia can cause a primary war in Europe in the five years.
Russia is the threat, he said, it is the description of NATO the intelligence report as an attempt to justify a building in army spending.
A former United Kingdom ambassador to Russia said that the United States exercised more tension in Vladimir Putin to conclude an agreement in Ukraine.
Going to Jayne Secker of Sky News, Sir Roderic Lyne said that the speech through the US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, had not stopped missing or “a” wonderful revelation. ”
But, he said that he would have been reassuring to Europeans that Hegseth gave a “very strong” commitment to NATO.
“The Americans will put Putin to see to do at least one stop the fire,” he said.
“What we are talking about is to negotiate a high fire in the coming months. It is feasible but very difficult,” he said.
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As we reported, Pete Hegseth was news in his first great vacation in Europe.
Donald Trump’s new Secretary of Defense said US troops would not be sent to Ukraine as a peace soldier, while saying that he was “unrealistic” that Ukraine expected to register in NATO or repair all their territory before 2014.
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The fact that Donald Trump needs to finance European security is a surprise.
But the tone of its Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, will send surprise waves through the Alliance.
“The United States will no longer tolerate an unbalanced dating . . . which encourages dependence. Our European allies [need] entering the appropriate traditional security and security in the continent. ”
Pete Hegesh in Brussels
However, London, Paris, Berlin and other places have no one to blame more than having left their respective nations desperately understood in the American army instead of investment of their own infantry soldiers to make sure they are credible and Have the ability to fight.
Trump’s threats in his first mandate to withdraw the United States from NATO, unless other Member States begin to take a more equitable component of the European security burden that deserve to have been enough to release a boost to rebuild the infantry European, the decades of economy dug. Cortes from the end of the Cold War.
They did.
The European allies had a Giant awakening on February 24, 2022 when Russia introduced their giant Ukraine level invasion, which is a NATO ally.
The eruption of the greatest clash in Europe since World War II led the United Kingdom and other European states to talk much more with its defenses, but even then, the replacement was too slow compared to the threat.
So, here, the United Kingdom and other European allies face the anger of a white house even more powerful and interested, with Pete Hegseth, the new US secretary of defense, transmitting the message of his boss that Washington has other priorities that To Europe.
Mark Rutte, the NATO general secretary, includes the desire to respond credibly to US caution signs.
Speaking at a press convention before, he said that he hopes that the allies accumulate defense expenses to “3%north” of the early GDP “.
This is a decrease that the 5% objective achieved through Trump, but would be at least one step in the right direction, only to keep the United States in NATO, but allow allies to rebuild their armies, marines and forces Aéreas who want to dissuade Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.
The repeated US administrations, not only the two times of Trump, criticized the vast majority of NATO allies to reduce investments in their armed forces and harvest the benefits of a peace division called So after the Cueva de la Unión Soviet
The difference with Trump is that it is very brutal with his words and also much less committed to the transatlantic security link evolved two global wars.
This means that its threats not for a best friend of NATO if you do not spend enough for defense is not only empty rhetoric, but a genuine threat.
Such language also undermines the basic precept of the alliance: that an attack against a Member State is an attack against all.
The only response for Europe is in spite of everything to be serious with respect to its own defense.
The media have now been ordered outside the doors of the meeting.
We expected to listen to the NATO Secretary, Mark Rutte and the Secretary of Defense of Ukraine, Rustem Umerov, however, it turns out that it will not happen.
Here is a reminder of what we have heard:
The US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, said “not realistic” to think that Ukraine would return to its borders before 2014.
He told the meeting: “The United States is not that the NATO club for Ukraine is a realistic result of a negotiated regulation. ”
Move below to read your comments, and the pieces of the speech of the British secretary John Healey.
Pete Hegseth, the debatable Secretary of Defense of Donald Trump, is the following to speak and says that he will describe the vision of US President for Peace.
“The blood spill will have to stop,” he said, adding that Trump needs to end the war through diplomacy.
In the comments that will send surprise waves in Ukraine and Europe, he says he is not realistic that kyiv will make all their lands in a peace agreement.
“We want, like you, a sovereign and a dirty rich Ukraine, however, we will have to start by detecting that returning to the borders of Ukraine before 2014 is an unrealistic goal,” he said.
In a hard blow, he says: “The United States is not that the NATO club for Ukraine is a realistic result of a negotiated regulation. “
To be clear, he said, as a component of any security guarantee, “there will be no US troops deployed in Ukraine”, which Volodymyr Zelenskyy in componenticular requested.
Europe to heavy
It goes to the way the United States will continue to Ukraine.
“The side of European security will have to be an imperative for the European members of NATO. In this, in this, Europe will have to provide the overwhelming percentage of deadly help and not dead to Ukraine. “
He says that the United States focuses on China and its own borders.
“While the United States directs their attention to those threats, European allies will have to lead from the front,” he said, added that he waits for the alliance, but that requires paint paint.
It refers to the particular defense expense.
“The United States will no longer tolerate unbalanced dating . . . which encourages dependence. On the contrary, our appointments will favor the empowerment of Europe to have their own security. “
He says he will force European allies to enter the sand and “appropriate security in the continent. “
The Secretary of the United Kingdom for Defense is aimed at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.
John Healey launches meeting through 2025 is “the critical year” for the Ukraine War.
While he saw that Russia “weakened” through the conflict, 850,000 of its population killed or wounded, says that it is still “undeniably dangerous” and “take slowly. ”
Healey says that the defense ministers are to help Ukraine “force Putin to the table. ”
“We have to accentuate even more,” he adds, saying that the United Kingdom will spend 4. 5 billion sterling pounds in Army for Ukraine this year, “more than ever. ”
“Europe intensifies with more defense expenses, more for Ukraine. ”
He also confirms that another 150 million pounds of “new firepower” will be in the country.
Healey warns that security of Ukraine in security.
“China Look. Iran and North Korea are watching. Everyone, like Putin, are for symptoms of weakness,” he adds.
“When the attack is controlled in a continent, this embraces diets to aher. ”
An assembly of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group is about to begin the NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Before the meeting begins, we listen to several of the main internal players and outside the alliance doors.
They are:
We will be in all your comments when they are aimed at other members of the organization, and you can look in the most sensible on the page.
These are Kyiv’s newest photographs after a Russian missile attack during the night.
There is almost no caution for civilians, because the sirens of air attacks only took their position when the movements began (see 7:05 a. m. ).