Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker frowned after harshly criticising Defense Secretary Pete Hegses' remarks on Ukraine last week, but a senator spokesman said they have been talking since. I said.
“Chairman Wicker and Secretary Hegses had a great conversation over the weekend. They remained in line with a common commitment to rebuild our troops and reforming our defense industrial bases. Chairman Wicker said that President Trump's strength was We look forward to their continued partnership in supporting peace through the Agenda of the Agenda,” a Wicker spokesman told Breitbart News on Tuesday.
Last Tuesday, Hegus, located at NATO headquarters in Brussels, issued a statement outlining the Trump administration's position on the Ukrainian war ahead of the beginning of peace talks led by President Donald Trump.
Hegseth called on Europe to lead its own security, saying NATO's Ukrainian membership was not the result of peace negotiations called Ukraine's return to its pre-2014 border. The attack stated that it should not be under NATO umbrella, which could involve US military action if NATO members are present, for Ukraine's European peacekeeping mission.
His remarks shocked the bluntness of Europe, but because it appears that Ukraine has ruled out what it wanted to get in the ultimate peace deal. Hegses then said that he hadn't removed anything from the table and instead stated reality.
Wicker sternly criticized Hegses' comments, coordinated with the White House.
Wicker I said Politics At a security conference in Munich, Heggs made a “rookie mistake” when he said Ukraine's return to the border before 2014 was “unrealistic.”
“Hegses would be a great Secretary of Defense, but he wasn't the choice for my job,” he told the outlet. “But he made a rookie mistake in Brussels and has returned some of what he said, but not on that line.”
“I don't know who wrote the speech. Tucker Carlson has written it, and Carlson is an idiot,” said the senator, who is said to be a “Ukrainian supporter.”
“Everyone knows…and the people in the administration know what you say before you first meet that you agree and you don't agree,” Wicker says. , he was “confused” and added that he was “disturbed.”
But two days later, Trump himself made a similar statement, saying that it was “practical” for Ukraine to join NATO and “impossible” for Ukraine to return to its pre-2014 border .
Wicker – a Russian hawk and supporter of more US support for Ukraine – opposed reading Russia to Russia, the idea that Trump came to mind, and told Russian President Vladimir Putin “he He said he called a war criminal who must be put in prison for the rest of his life.
“There are good guys and bad guys in this war. The Russians are bad guys,” Wicker said. “They invade almost all international law, and they should be defeated. And Ukraine is honoured for the promises the world has made to it.”
Wicker pressed the Biden administration to surge US arms into Ukraine, allowing Ukrainian forces to use them to attack within Russia. He also calls for the United States to continue sending weapons to Ukraine “until there is a ceasefire.”
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