Order by Hegseth to cancel Ukraine weapons caught White House off guard
Order by Hegseth to cancel Ukraine weapons caught White House off guard
reuters.com
Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to three freight airlines operating out of Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and a U.S. base in Qatar: Stop 11 flights loaded with artillery shells and other weaponry and bound for Ukraine.
In a matter of hours, frantic questions reached Washington from Ukrainians in Kyiv and from officials in Poland, where the shipments were coordinated. Who had ordered the U.S. Transportation Command, known as TRANSCOM, to halt the flights? Was it a permanent pause on all aid? Or just some?
Top national security officials — in the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department — couldn’t provide answers. Within one week, flights were back in the air.
The verbal order originated from the office of Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, according to TRANSCOM records reviewed by Reuters.
hey remember when we held our votes so that the Democrats would stop supporting genocide? congrats, now they're supporting 2 genocides (and probably a lot more I'm not aware of)
Occasionally on my Reddit account I try to get people to see this point, but they’re enjoying their posturing as the “only people being moral” too much and refuse to listen.
People that virtue signal are THE WORST people. Murderers with no remorse are better because AT LEAST THEY ARE HONEST.
I've combed through the statistics for the 2024 election multiple times. Just check my profile.
The uncommitted movement were some 700,000 strong. Those numbers were on par with RFK's votes since he didn't pull out of the race by the time he endorsed Trump.
Democrats lost voters in 2024, despite the eligible voting pool increasing. Republicans gain voters ofc.
Why are you focusing on the voters when it's the politician's job to CONVINCE voters they're worth voting for? And are we forgetting the awful transition by Biden to Kamala, where she had 3 months to campaign? Are we forgetting how Biden said he'd be a transition candidate, that he wouldn't run for a second term but then did so anyway to the surprise of his staff?
We could have held a primary where the American people could have at least had the impression that they were engaging in Democracy (only for the DNC to pick their favorite anyways).
Pleaseeeeeee stop blaming voters. You're repeating the cycle where those in power never have to change.
I'm gonna at least blame the stupid fucks that voted for the orange fat man larping as an early days Mussolini.
I'm focused on both, I've been incredibly critical of the Democrats but I'm also critical of nonvoters because they've committed to it as a strategy to convince the Democrats to their own folly because it won't work, and only serves as accelerationism
I won't stop blaming the voters that just sit there and expect to be spoonfed perfect candidates like toddlers, instead of understanding one candidate wasn't perfect and the other is a fascist. The american electorate needs the plane noises and everything.
I remember when the democrates chose the interests of a foreign apartheid state commiting genocide before the interests of their own voters.
We will get the exact same energy next election if you keep scapegoating voters.
no the United States together, both branches choose, yes the Democrats fucked up but they did not do so in isolation.
that's the least pragmatic take I've ever heard, conditions in gaza have nothing but accelerated since Republicans took power, voting is not the only way to apply pressure.
I'd like you to take note of how you're never critical of Republicans.
If, in 30 years, when the choice is between a democrat who wants 20 genocides and a republican who wants 21, will you still be voting blue? This is why people call you blue maga. There is no red line. You all will sacrifice however many Palestinians or Ukrainians it takes to bide time till the next election cycle when the Democratic party is definitely going to have a liberal Renaissance led by AOC and Bernie, and fascism will be defeated and we can all dance for joy. Never mind the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinian children it took to get you there.
Do you think Germans in mid 1930's Germany had a duty to vote liberal despite democracy having already been thrown out the window? As people were getting sent to death camps and there was zero hope of fair and free elections, did Germans have a duty to vote blue? Or did they have a duty to start getting organized with vulnerable groups, learning sabotage, and getting armed?
Your "pragmatic" utilitarianism has resulted in a genocide and an incinerated planet. Your empire is over and devolving into fascism, and it's time you start realizing that.
In democracy, politicans represent constituents. Biden and Kamala ignored constituents. Biden and Kamala lost. This is how democracy works. This outcome was more American than apple pie.
nice, I'll bury my morals next to the millions dead for yours
I'm not saying give up on trying to save everyone, I'm saying your execution has only killed even more people
A non-vote is complicit by abiding the greater evil.
You get nothing, you lose. Good day sir.
Yes. Is algebra hard for you?
And, fuck you for conflating "want" from "allow" when it suits you.
You’re stupid and naive. 20 elections voting for 20 not 21 genocides results in dramatically fewer genocides. Instead you now get exponentially more with your stupid purity test.
You are stupid and spewing bullshit, fuck you.