Summary

A European Parliament member claimed that the U.S. gave Europe three weeks to agree on Ukraine’s “surrender” terms or risk an American withdrawal from Europe.

Mika Aaltola made the claim on X, but provided no evidence. NBC News reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested a U.S. troop reduction in Europe.

Trump reportedly plans to cut 20,000 troops and demand greater NATO contributions. He has pushed for higher NATO defense spending.

Trump may meet with Putin soon, believing Russia holds the upper hand in negotiations.

  • FiveMacs
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    572 months ago

    He’s gonna withdraw anyways…he works for you Putin. They are ramping for WW3 with the world vs USA/Russia/China…fucked up to put us with Russia but here we are.

    • @Dragomus@lemmy.world
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      222 months ago

      Yeah he’ll withdraw troops and NATO support no matter how things go in Europe …

      He’ll need more armyboots at home defending his regime … also needs to recoup costs due to losing out on tax income and tariff lies. Then there is this thing where he wants to give Putin this favor of dismantling NATO.

      So, his demand was 2% in 2017 … and countries are exceeding that, Poland is already spending more than even the US, and Germany is climbing, so he upped it to 5% to get the excuse of the US backing out.

      Even if they meet 5%, in a few years he’ll up it further.

      Ofcourse for now he’ll assume the NATO members still feel bound to keep supplying intelligence information and buy American weaponry, even if NATO falls apart.

    • Banana
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      2 months ago

      Has China given an indication they’re allied with the US? This is an earnest question.

        • The Quuuuuill
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          352 months ago

          it’s a lot like the tripartite pact. three fascist military governments are agreeing to non-compete terms. they are not allies. they are merely not enemies

          • Banana
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            72 months ago

            This definitely helped answer my question, thanks yall!

    • suoko
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      62 months ago

      So a new call to the army for all european people and here we go again. Monkeys spinning the wheel because of a bunch of useless people.