US Secretary of Defense Stomach hegsith Told NATO On Wednesday, when the United States “is committed” with the military alliance, it is preferring its security and is stopping the conflict with China.
Hegsith told NATO allies in Brussels that Europe would need to take more responsibility in “European Security Security”.
“The United States is committed to the NATO alliance and a defensive partnership with Europe. Phil Stop,” Hegsith said.
“But the United States will no longer tolerate any balanced relationship that encourages dependence. Rather, our relationship will prefer Europe to empower Europe to be responsible for its security.
This security also includes Ukraine.
Many allies are looking forward to explaining how much military and financial support will provide to the Ukrainian government under the President of Washington. Donald TrumpAdministration.
Instead, NATO officials and members were told they had to accept more responsibility.
Hegsit said Europe would “need Ukraine to provide a huge part of deadly and non -deadly aid in the future.”
The secretary also said that NATO membership for Ukraine was unrealistic and was unlikely to retrieve Kiev's borders before 2014.
“We also want a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine like you. But we must start recognizing that Ukraine returning to the borders before 2014 is an unrealistic purpose,” he said. The purpose of “.
“Ukraine has to include strong security guarantees in a sustainable peace to ensure that the war will not resume. It should not be Mansk (agreement) 3.0. He said, the United States is not sure that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic result of a negotiation settlement.
Shortly before Trump announced his truth on social platform, his comments came out that he had a “long and fruitful” phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
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“We want to stop the millions of deaths in the war with Russia/Ukraine. President Putin even used the slogan of my very strong campaign of 'general understanding'. We both believe it very firmly. We were willing to work closely, including meeting each other's nations, “Trump wrote.
“We have also agreed to start the dialogue with our respective teams immediately, and we will start calling Ukrainian President Zelannski to inform him of his conversation, which I will work now.”
Russia connected Crimea in March 2014 and then supported supporters of armed insurgency against Kiev's forces in the Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.
Moscow currently controls 20 % of Ukraine's territory, mostly in the east and south.
As a part of security for Ukraine, Hegsit said that if NATO troops are deployed as a peaceful in Ukraine at any time, it should be done as part of a non -NATO mission. It is not included under Article Five.
Article five is a fundamental principle of NATO, often known as “collective defense”.
Under the article, an attack against a NATO member attacks all and will respond jointly by the military alliance.
Article Five has been activated only once, when European allies and Canada used collective security guarantee to assist the United States after al -Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001.
The United States also used this meeting in Brussels to remind Trump's new calls so that members need to contribute further defense costs.
All members of the alliance are expected to meet the standard of spending at least two percent of the total domestic products (GDP) on defense.
However, in recent months, Trump has said he needs to spend more.
“Two percent is not enough. President Trump has demanded five percent and I agree.
“Increasing your security affiliation is less paying for the future. A low payment, as you said, Mr. Secretary (Mark bread), through force peace.
The United States itself does not meet the rate of five percent expected by Trump.
Putin has increased his military budget since his troops went to Ukraine, and 23 of them are estimated to have reached the target of last year to spend two percent of the total domestic products or so. Have crossed, but one -third is still low – including Canada.
Some US allies fear that a hasty deal can be imposed on terms that are not in agreement with Ukraine.
Prior to Hegsit's speaking, NATO Secretary General Mark Rod told the Associate Press that Putin would only discuss the peace deal with Ukraine if its supporters would continue to supply enough weapons and ammunition.
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