For the first time since the US created an international group to coordinate military aid to Ukraine three years ago, America’s Pentagon chief will not be in attendance when more than 50 other defense leaders meet Wednesday, June 4. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who returned from a national security conference in Singapore on Sunday, will not arrive in Brussels until Wednesday evening, after the Ukraine Defense Contact Group’s meeting is over.
It is the latest in a series of steps that the US has taken to distance itself from the Ukraine war effort. And it comes on the heels of French President Emmanuel Macron’s warning at the security conference last weekend that the US and others risk a dangerous double standard if their concentration on a potential conflict with China is done at the cost of abandoning Ukraine.
It’s always happy hour somewhere
What an abysmal sack of shit.
The dude’s pretty obviously a Russian sympathizer.
Also he has white supremacist tattoos. Yes, really.
Just like his demented orange daddy. Well except for the tattoos.
Snopes re: the tattoos if anyone’s interested
Do you really want Hegseth getting involved? Man’s got the Sidam touch in a way even other members of the Trump team can’t help but notice.
Given the abysmal OpSec he’s demonstrated, seems like he’d be more harm than good.
Wouldn’t that be a Sadim touch?
That name sounds brown. Off to CECOT.
A fair point. I’m hoping he’d just be passed out and some competent person could get Ukraine what they need.
Needs to block off more serious drinking time.
Must be hung over
He’s too busy brainstorming new names for the USNS Harriet Tubman because her actions and beliefs that “slavery is bad, actually” apparently don’t align with the current administration’s ideology. But why am I’m repeating things y’all already know? Everyone’s on his Signal chat, of course.
Too busy worrying about ThE dEi, I imagine.
Yea I’ve been hungover and called off work too petey.
I thought rumor was this guy was gonna be out on his ass. Oh well…
probably still a useful tool for putin. funny thing is putin also keeps his subornidates drunks for the purpose for easier control.
So what. He’d bring nothing to the table but negativity.
No value loss. Not sure what the story is.
Of course he does. They scheduled it on tequila thursdays, his religious pilgrimage to the bottom of a bottle comes first.
It being malicious seems like an obvious answer, but I seriously would not be surprised if it was a booking error or some sort of hubris that they’d wait for him.
Needs more time for make up…
Wouldn’t want the rest of the world to know he drinks more Putinka than the russian generals do.
He is too busy renaming bases / ships after confederate generals, putting on makeup, chatting it up with his signal bros.
