Paper Tigers must now foot the bill: Poland’s Tusk, UK’s Starmer, Ukraine’s Zelensky, France’s Macron, Germany’s Merz
European freeloaders will now have to carry their own weight.
While US President Donald J. Trump was already disembarking from a position of responsibility in the Ukrainian war effort, the perceived open betrayal by Euro-Globalists in NATO during have apparently sped up the process.
Today, an X thread by Pentagon’s top policy official laid out this new reality in minute detail, warning that from now on, military support for Ukraine cannot depend on the US, urging European allies to take the lead.
Politico reported:
“In remarks delivered at this week’s Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Berlin and published on X on Thursday evening, Elbridge Colby said Washington’s support had relied heavily on ‘drawing down finite U.S. stockpiles’, an approach he signaled is no longer sustainable.
‘Europe must accelerate its assumption of primary responsibility for the conventional defense of the continent,” Colby said. ‘This is not a matter of choice, but of strategic necessity’.
He added that continued assistance to Kyiv ‘must not rely on significant U.S. contributions’, urging allies to step up funding and production instead.”
After Zelensky (that Trump called ‘a P.T. Barnum’) got feeble Joe Biden to give him hundreds of billions to fund the Ukrainian war effort, now the US isn’t funding Kiev anymore.
There is a program (PURL) in which the US does sell weapons to NATO allies to transfer them to Ukraine.
But even that is uncertain, as right now, for example, already paid for weapons deliveries are being delayed, cause the military hardware is needed for the Iranian conflict.
My full remarks may be found here.https://t.co/1kmpKOKYq0 12/12
— Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby (@USWPColby) April 16, 2026
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