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The United States remains committed to the NATO alliance and to partnership with Europe,
I'm also here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe,
The U.S. is prioritizing deterring war with China in the Pacific, recognizing the reality of scarcity, and making the resourcing tradeoffs to ensure deterrence does not fail. As the United States shifts its attention to these threats, European allies must lead from the front,
Members of this [Ukraine] contact group must meet the moment,
Hegseth said to the assembled group of about 50 member countries that have provided $126 billion worth of weapons and military assistance to Ukraine since Russia's 2022 invasion We live in fiscally constrained times,
Hegseth said, and need to be responsible with taxpayer money We need to do a lot more so we have what we need to deter and defend. And so that there is more equitable burden sharing,
Our message is clear, the bloodshed must stop and this war must end,
he told a group of Kyiv's backers that included his Ukrainian counterpart Secretary Hegseth, we hear you,
said Britain's defence minister John Healey in a brief response Instead, any security guarantee must be backed by capable European and non-European troops,
If these troops are deployed as peacekeepers to Ukraine at any point, they should be deployed as part of a non-NATO mission and they should not be covered under Article 5,
he said, referring to the alliance's mutual defense clause We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. But we must start by recognising that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective,
Hegseth told the meeting of more than 40 countries allied to Ukraine Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering,
The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement,
To be clear, ... as part of any security guarantee, there will not be US troops deployed to Ukraine.”
Arrived at NATO HQ. Our commitment is clear: NATO must be a stronger, more lethal force — not a diplomatic club, ... Time for allies to meet the moment."
The most difficult issue remains defense spending,
said one European diplomat at NATO The European continent deserves to be free from any aggression, but it ought to be those in the neighbourhood investing the most in that individual and collective defense,
Hegseth said Tuesday as he kicked off his European trip at a U.S. military base in Germany The Europeans have to own this conflict going forward,
Trump's national security advisor Mike Waltz told U.S. media We were treated very nicely by Russia, actually. I hope that’s the beginning of a relationship where we can end that war,
We need to recoup those costs and that is going to be a partnership with the Ukrainians in terms of their natural resources and their oil and gas and also buying ours,
the national security adviser said
