frigidweirdo
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Trump administration’s mixed messaging on foreign policy leaves world guessing
Different narratives from senior US officials on the future of Ukraine have sewn confusion in Europe?

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Discordant Ukraine statements from Trump team leave allies anxious"
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But despite the mid-air scare the news was already firmly elsewhere. In Europe, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth had stunned America's allies with a speech setting out what many saw as a series of concessions Ukraine would have to make to sign any peace deal with Russia brokered by President Trump.
Hegseth said it was "unrealistic" to think Ukraine could win back its sovereign territory occupied by Russia, as was its demand for Nato membership, adding it was up to European and not US troops to keep the peace."
Yep, they've come out and said "you know, the Ukraine is fucked" and this before they've started negotiating. It's like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact where Poland was represented by nobody, and the big two countries had already decided what they wanted to do with Poland in the first place.
How can you make a deal, when you've already told one side of the deal "we'll give you all you want"????
This isn't the "Art of the Deal", this is the "Art of the Steal".