The Security Assistance Group (SAG) is a unit of NATO command operated in Germany that specifically focuses on the military training and development in support of Ukraine. The U.S. is transitioning out of SAG leadership and handing the responsibility to Europe or Canada.
EUROPE – Another NATO member will eventually take over running the Security Assistance Group, according to a U.S official and three people familiar with the plan, which has played a central role in equipping and training Ukrainian troops since the full-scale Russian invasion began. But the removal of U.S. leadership from a pivotal program on the continent reinforces the extent to which America is distancing itself from European partners.
The move will mean the U.S. no longer helps shape what Ukraine’s future military will look like. It follows a swath of changes the Trump administration has made to the decades-old alliance. The Pentagon has reduced the number of American officers running commands in Europe and canceled some rotations. Officials are reassessing troops stationed on the continent and warning countries they won’t receive assistance unless their defense spending increases.
“A European or Canadian officer taking command … would be yet another example of allies taking on greater responsibility,” said a NATO official, who like others, was granted anonymity to discuss the unannounced plan.
The transition of leadership will take up to a year, the people said, but insisted it won’t interrupt the work done with Ukraine. While NATO will lead the program, the U.S. European Command will stay involved through an American deputy. (read more)
NATO advocates are framing the transition as an example of the USA abdicating military leadership to European counterparts who support Ukraine. However, the role of the USA in the Strategic Assistance Group was always supposed to be temporary, with Europe ultimately taking responsibility.
[…] Still, some in Kyiv are worried that putting the command within NATO’s complex bureaucracy might slow down getting assistance to the frontlines, the official said. “No one can replace American satellite reconnaissance, target designation and logistics capabilities of U.S. heavy transport aircraft.”
But the Trump administration is pressing ahead.
Speaking to NATO defense ministers in Brussels last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said U.S. allies “must step up.”
Trump “has been very clear on this point for many years,” Hegseth continued, “and over two administrations, and for too long, NATO has been a paper tiger and a one-way street. No more.” (more)
Daddy took the T-Bird away. Long overdue.
Finally!
I’m sure President Putin is shaking in his boots LOL…
God bless President Trump! Let Europe and the Snow Mexicans take charge of this mess!!
Great! Faster, please!!
Moving forward, as always. Thank you Mr. President.
Europe wants their WWReddit, they can fund and direct their WWReddit on their own.
Daddy (US) to junior (EU) it’s time to get a job Son go out and do your own fighting and you know, man. 🤣
Heh… To glom on to the daddy took the T-bird away theme…
” it’s time to get a job Son ”
Ain’t no cure for the summertime blues…
End the ultimately anti-Christian persecution of post Communist Russia.
Reject the absurd and vicious programming you were raised upon and defend Humanity.
The Slavic people and specifically the Rus are noble indeed and worthy of both our friendship and respect.
Cut the umbilical cord.
Here you go EU, it’s your mess, you clean it up.
My concern is, leaving junior to mind the store, could very well result in serious escalation of the conflict.
Thus dragging U.S. Forces back, into real combat.
Does this mean, “Ann Margaret is not coming”
Our pretend allies can’t defend their own countries. Good luck defending Ukraine.
They can import a few more million Muslims who would happily join the military to save the European continent. Their allegiance is to their new western European nation, right?
If they had any smarts then they should announce that all “refugees” under the age of 50 have to take up arms and go fight with Ukraine. That would empty their countries immediately. I can imagine the stampede back to Northern Africa and the Middle East.
No more.” (more)
Good.
Yes!!!!!
I’m thinking that with the undeclared war in Iran, and things in that region are continuing to heat, up that those Patriot missile systems and the technology to build the missiles absolutely should NOT be licensed to Ukraine as a matter of “National Security”, PERIOD. Also, those Patriot missiles must be held in reserve and not made available to Ukraine to build or for sale for protecting those countries in the middle east and our military personnel and bases in the middle east region.
Because Ukraine is not a member of NATO and the countries in Europe are the ones so worried about Russia, as they should be, America is not obligated to support Ukraine under the NATO treaty. Let those European countries take up the fight themselves since they have failed to help America in the mid east, and in fact many refused to allow American forces to over fly nor refuel at their bases in that region!
“The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.”………………………….”Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?” George Washington’s Farewell Address
The more Z talks, the less help he gets. Good. Que the usual suspects hand wringing in 5, 4, 3, 2………………
Perhaps France & Spain should be next in line to lead the SAG that way the Ukrainians will know the most proper way to surrender.
Sooner the better.
So, it seems Russia’s complaint about the expansion of NATO has some validity to it.
As long as it includes the complete removal of any US personnel and equipment from the group, great idea.
Will it be accompanied by a reduction in U.S. financial support? The quoted article does not say.
There are roughly 45k World War 2 Vets still alive, out of 16 million. 183,500 Killed in the European Theatre (according to Google).
When World War 2 happened even the most insane Military Planner wasn’t thinking of resetting Global Populations or heal “Gaia”, all they cared about was winning.
Winning is not possible in the Brussel’s Elite’s mentality. Which is why this will spiral, into something horrible and a blood letting of immense proportions.
We saw the beginnings of this yeasterday with the HORDES of Illegal Aliens entering Spain. We saw this today with Ukraine bombing a Moscow Restuarant.
The faster we detach ourselves from this the better.
Fundamentally: “Ukraine is Europe’s proxy war.” They are the ones who want to resuscitate Churchill’s “Operation Unthinkable.”
No. They don’t remember what “World War” is. (While Russia will never allow its people to forget …)
Let us please now remember what our first President said about “Foreign Entanglements.” He chose that word carefully.
Look at your history books. The “default state” of Europe is to always be “at war” with somebody.
Nice to finally see actual movement on this issue.
“If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not returned to the United States, then this whole project [NATO] will have failed.”
-General Dwight Eisenhower 1951
Long over due. We need resources for our area of the world. Sorry to see, but human nature never changes. Humans takes the easy way out. Until they cant
From the lengthy quote within the post above:
“Speaking to NATO defense ministers in Brussels last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said U.S. allies ‘must step up.”’ “
Who is it that’s choosing not to reference the War Secretary accurately? Apparently some un-identified press office within “EUROPE” or NATO.
I like that.