At last week’s Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Brussels, newly minted U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that the position of the U.S. government was that Ukraine will not join NATO.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Feb. 13, 2025. (Virginia Mayo/AP) WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has paused offensive cyberoperations against Russia by U.

Speeches delivered by J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of eighty years of U.S. foreign policy.

Paratroopers jump from an airplane during NATO exercise Falcon Leap in Ermelo, the Netherlands, on Sept. 14, 2021. (Sander Koning/ANP/AFP via ) Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Feb. 12 remarks to the Ukraine Defense Contact Group shook many Europeans into believing that America’s commitment to the alliance is wavering dangerously.

Some viral posts claimed that Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth was drinking alcohol while speaking to the press at a NATO meeting in Brussels, Belgium

Remember when Pete Hegseth’s line on Ukraine was panned as a “rookie mistake”? His error has apparently become the official White House line.