Jeg antar at det Putin vil prøve å oppnå her er at sanksjonene mot dem blir hevet og en våpenhvile. Det ville fjernet trykket på den russiske økonomien og latt dem bygge seg opp i fred og ro.
USA sin støtte til Ukraina er en ting, men de amerikanske økonomiske sanksjonene Russland er under gjør at de ikke bare kan importere det de trenger for å male Ukraina i stykker. Sanksjonene til Europa er ikke verdt en dritt uten USA.
Kyiv would only achieve peace through “robust security guarantees”, but Hegseth ruled out Nato membership for Ukraine. Instead, peace would have to be secured by “capable European and non-European troops”, who he stressed would not come from the US.
Any British or European troops deployed in Ukraine would not be covered by part of a Nato mission or covered by the alliance’s article 5 guarantee, Hegseth added, meaning they would in effect be reliant on help from participating states.
Earlier this week, Zelenskyy, told the Guardian that Europe was not able to offer resilient security guarantees to Kyiv without the involvement of the US. “Security guarantees without America are not real,” he said.
De hadde en artikkel til som har med en nyanse jeg ikke hadde fått med meg noe annet sted.
… though the language was notably toned down from a draft briefed in advance to the press.
That had said the US was no longer “the primary guarantor of security in Europe” and appeared to suggest a recasting of the 75-year-old Nato alliance, created after the second world war to protect western Europe from the Soviet bloc.
…he softened the language …
Hegseth said the US was shifting its military priorities to defending its homeland and deterring China, and he called on European Nato members to hike defence budgets to 5% of GDP to better defend the continent.
