Hegseth Is Literally Phoning It in With Snub to Ukraine War Meeting

[Eugene]

Source: The Daily Beast

Hegseth Is Literally Phoning It in With Snub to Ukraine War Meeting

His decision to not fly to Brussels marks the first time in the assembly’s three-year history that the Defense Department chief has not been physically present.

Leigh Kimmins
Reporter

Published Apr. 11 2025 10:10AM EDT

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has all but given up on a group designed to plan military aid shipments to Ukraine, according to The New York Times.

President Donald Trump’s defense chief decided to skip a flight to Brussels, Belgium, where leaders from around 50 nations gathered Friday to plan aid consignments to Kyiv as part of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group’s 27th meeting. Instead, according to The New York Times, he dialed in to the meeting from the U.S.

The coalition was created by former U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during the Biden Administration. Hegseth’s snub marks the first time in the assembly’s three-year history that the Defense Department chief has not been physically present. His absence also comes amid an apparent eastward shift from the Trump Administration, closer to the Kremlin and Russia.

This is evidenced by the fact that as the meeting was taking place, top Trump official Steve Witkoff—who recently admitted that he may have been duped by Hamas during peace talks—arrived in St. Petersburg for a sit down with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Russian media, citing the Kremlin.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth-is-literally-phoning-it-in-with-snub-to-ukraine-war-meeting/

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hegseth-literally-phoning-snub-ukraine-141041989.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. But on the bright side, Hegseth can't stop the European countries

from their mission to Ukraine.

[lark]

2. He and tsf were ordered to fuck Ukraine and support Russia and that's what they are doing.

Basically anyting Putin wants, Putin gets.