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For the first time since the US created an international group to coordinate military aid to Ukraine three years ago, America's Pentagon chief will not be in attendance when more than 50 other defense leaders meet Wednesday, June 4. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who returned from a national security conference in Singapore on Sunday, will not arrive in Brussels until Wednesday evening, after the Ukraine Defense Contact Group's meeting is over.

It is the latest in a series of steps that the US has taken to distance itself from the Ukraine war effort. And it comes on the heels of French President Emmanuel Macron's warning at the security conference last weekend that the US and others risk a dangerous double standard if their concentration on a potential conflict with China is done at the cost of abandoning Ukraine.

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 86 points 4 days ago

What an abysmal sack of shit.

The dude’s pretty obviously a Russian sympathizer.

Also he has white supremacist tattoos. Yes, really.

[-] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago

Snopes re: the tattoos if anyone's interested

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

Just like his demented orange daddy. Well except for the tattoos.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Do you really want Hegseth getting involved? Man's got the Sidam touch in a way even other members of the Trump team can't help but notice.

Given the abysmal OpSec he's demonstrated, seems like he'd be more harm than good.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

A fair point. I’m hoping he’d just be passed out and some competent person could get Ukraine what they need.

[-] Airowird@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Wouldn't that be a Sadim touch?

[-] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

That name sounds brown. Off to CECOT.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

Wouldn't want the rest of the world to know he drinks more Putinka than the russian generals do.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

putin is really upset at trump and hesgeth, of the recent drone attacks.

[-] oh_@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

He is too busy renaming bases / ships after confederate generals, putting on makeup, chatting it up with his signal bros.

[-] breezeblock@lemm.ee 18 points 4 days ago

Needs to block off more serious drinking time.

[-] lemmyausmister@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago

It's always happy hour somewhere

[-] Bieren@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Bad hangover. Or being the true alcoholic and just making plans around his drinking.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago

If you're a pro (which I am), you hydrate enough not to get a hangover, despite drinking like a champion.

[-] Bieren@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Jug of pedialyte before passing out, if remembered. Wake up, can of monster or 2 and another jug of pedialyte.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

his meaning of pedialyte= another pint of hard liquour.

[-] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Assuming a "jug" is 1 liter, and we'll assume we're drinking the 473 ml standard monsters.

Just between the monsters and pedialytes alone we're looking at:

320mg of caffeine (about 3.5 cups of coffee)

~250g sugar (500% daily recommended, roughly equivalent to 63 sugar cubes)

~3660g sodium (~160% daily recommended, roughly equivalent to the sodium in 26 strips of bacon)

Add all the booze that made you drunk in the first place and I'd say you're well on your way to punishing some serious porcelain.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

1 glass of water and ¼ of a banana for every drink is my method.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago

I thought rumor was this guy was gonna be out on his ass. Oh well…

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

probably still a useful tool for putin. funny thing is putin also keeps his subornidates drunks for the purpose for easier control.

[-] DarylDutch@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Of course he does. They scheduled it on tequila thursdays, his religious pilgrimage to the bottom of a bottle comes first.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 12 points 4 days ago

So what. He’d bring nothing to the table but negativity.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Too busy worrying about ThE dEi, I imagine.

[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It being malicious seems like an obvious answer, but I seriously would not be surprised if it was a booking error or some sort of hubris that they'd wait for him.

[-] DelnitaCrane@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

He's too busy brainstorming new names for the USNS Harriet Tubman because her actions and beliefs that "slavery is bad, actually" apparently don't align with the current administration's ideology. But why am I'm repeating things y'all already know? Everyone's on his Signal chat, of course.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

hes brainstorming how to get drunk faster, because he built up a tolerance to heavy drinker.

[-] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Yea I’ve been hungover and called off work too petey.

[-] JusticeForPorygon 9 points 4 days ago

Must be hung over

Needs more time for make up…

[-] uberdroog@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

No value loss. Not sure what the story is.

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