{"id":3588,"date":"2025-06-13T14:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2025-06-14T10:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:31:25","slug":"western-war-hawks-lack-plan-to-defeat-russia-pentagon-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/western-war-hawks-lack-plan-to-defeat-russia-pentagon-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Western war hawks lack plan to defeat Russia \u2013 Pentagon chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

The administration of US President Donald Trump does not intend to help Kiev defeat Moscow, but seeks a lasting peace, Pete Hegseth has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Western officials who speak of Ukraine winning the ongoing conflict don\u2019t have a real strategy for defeating Russia, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said.<\/p>\n

Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, the Pentagon chief declined to directly say whether he views Russia as a \u201ctrue adversary\u201d<\/em> or whether Washington would allow a \u201ccomplete surrender of Ukraine\u201d<\/em> in order to secure peace in the region.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration is instead seeking a settlement to the Ukraine conflict that will last, not Kiev\u2019s surrender or Russia\u2019s defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation is unfortunate, unleashed by the previous administration,\u201d<\/em> he said, referring to former President Joe Biden, whom Trump\u2019s team blames for entangling the US in the Ukraine conflict. Biden\u2019s government repeatedly vowed to back Kiev for as long as it took to defeat Russia militarily.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut everyone that talks about winning and prevailing is yet to present to me a plan that\u2019s going to push the Russian army out of those territories,\u201d<\/em> Hegseth added.<\/p>\n

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The Pentagon chief also repeated his earlier call for Europe to take greater responsibility for its own security. While he pledged Washington would continue to mediate peace efforts, he avoided confirming whether military aid to Kiev would continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe support peace in Ukraine\u2026 Peace is in our best interests, but Ukraine is not in the US and not in NATO,\u201d<\/em> he stated.<\/p>\n

Hegseth acknowledged that peace efforts \u201care moving slowly.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0When pressed on whether he would advise Trump to respond if Russia \u201cinvades NATO,\u201d<\/em> he confirmed that the US would be obligated to act under the bloc\u2019s Article 5, which treats an attack on one member as an attack on all. However, he emphasized that \u201cRussia has not invaded NATO allies,\u201d<\/em> dismissing claims that Moscow poses an immediate threat to the bloc.<\/p>\n

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Many Western officials have asserted that Russia plans to attack NATO\u2019s European members once the conflict in Ukraine ends. Moscow has repeatedly rejected these claims as nonsense, dismissing them as scare tactics used to justify increased Western military spending. Russia has also maintained that it remains open to peace talks if the root causes of the Ukraine conflict are addressed, including NATO expansion toward its borders and Western support for Kiev\u2019s NATO membership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The administration of US President Donald Trump does not intend to help Kiev defeat Moscow, but seeks a lasting peace, Pete Hegseth has said Western officials who speak of Ukraine winning the ongoing conflict don\u2019t have a real strategy for defeating Russia, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said. Testifying before the House Armed Services…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}