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Testiyfing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Marco Rubio downplayed concerns that the Trump administration is undermining NATO, but also repeated a long-standing complaint that allies need to boost defense spending. #NATO #rubio
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As far as I understand, Rubio is saying that there are no USn security guarantees whtsoever in realiyt, only in name.
Stop taking Trump’s US seriously!Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en)US Secretary of State Marko Rubio on security guarantees for Ukraine:There’s a lot of talk about security guarantees, and it’s something that there’s general agreement about now with the case of Ukraine. But those security guarantees involve the deployment of a handful of European troops, primarily French and the UK, and then a US backstop. But in fact, the security guarantee is the US backstop.
And I’m not diminishing the fact that some countries in Europe are willing to place troops in a post-war Ukraine. What I’m pointing out is that is irrelevant without the US backstop. And the reason why you need such a strong US backstop is because our allies and our partners have not invested enough in their own defense capabilities over the last 20 or 30 years.
Now, hopefully that’s going to change. Hopefully that is changing.
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— https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/2016563545811378518— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) Jan 28, 2026
This is actually promising.
With these words, Noem suggests that she understands that her actions have been lawless, & she wants to blame Trump & Miller (read: Hitler & Goebbels), but that defense did not suffice in Nuremberg.
Nor will Trump appreciate it.Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts)Already invoking the Nuremberg defense. A reminder to all that acting under superior orders does not relieve you of responsibility if a moral choice was possible.— https://x.com/shannonrwatts/status/2016543371737608321— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) Jan 28, 2026
Apparently, the “peace” negotiations are not for real, because the US is fully on Putin’s side.Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate)The United States has told Ukraine that it must sign on to a peace deal with Russia in order to get U.S. security guarantees, Reuters writes.
By ‘signing on to a peace deal,’ they mean surrender. They suggest we surrender in exchange for *maybe* getting security guarantees…🤦♀️— https://x.com/BohuslavskaKate/status/2016540291675615416
— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) Jan 28, 2026
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