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)
Posted in full with permission from the author. I hope this does not turn into an (infiltrated) NATO scheme to engage Russia in WW3, which either sucks USA into the war or allows USA to safely watch Russia and Europe destroy themselves. There is an old Chinese, and I believe Jewish Supremacist, fantasy of somehow goading Europe, Russia and USA into annihilating each other in a nuclear war; thus rendering the world ripe for China and Jewish Supremacists to dominate all that remains of it. I hope USA presently pulling out of its SAG leadership role is not that. Only a fool does not recognize the deep infiltration of JS into all things USA. One possibility is USA will be spared because so many JS live here and we already are 100% under their thumb. Another possibility is their top people will abscond from USA until after the annihilation is done. None of this is certain but all of it is worth keeping in mind. We live in a world ruled by elites and therefore must do our best to understand what they really want and how they are scheming to get it. Another point worth mentioning is we can reasonably see an elite alignment between China and Israel in this and in other matters, particularly their apparent nefarious cooperation during the covid scamdemic. ABN
It’s the Imperial System of looting versus sovereign nations committed to building and progressing — Susan Kokinda’s assessment of what is happening. I hope she’s right. The Promethean outfit assumes and addresses a largely economic battle between the American System and the British System, also called the Imperial System or the Bank of London System. To me, these appear to be a euphemisms for the Jewish Supremacist System centered in the City of London, which was deeply responsible for WW1 and WW2 and much more. I am, however, open on whichever thieves are at the top of whichever system. ABN
UPDATE: This posted by accident. I had thought it was in the draft file. I was saving it for if Trump did not veto the bill that includes the treasonous shotgun pager wedding proposed by Bibi between USA and Israel. Oh well, Trump has strayed so far from what he promised, it’s appropriate anyway. ABN
Americans have been told to be ‘ready’ to flee ten Middle Eastern countries as the Iran war spirals, with President Trump warning: ‘We’ll be hitting them very hard.’
The US Embassy has urgently advised US citizens across the Middle East to ‘consider departing or be ready to depart if there is an escalation,’ just hours after Trump signaled fresh strikes on Iran could come as soon as this weekend.
The warning now covers 10 countries: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and, most recently, Egypt.
‘US Embassies across the Middle East have issued security alerts today advising travelers to exercise heightened vigilance and be prepared for flight cancellations and airspace closures,’ the initial alert said.
A western diamondback rattlesnake. Credit: Sean B. Carroll
University of Maryland researchers discovered a new approach to treating venomous snakebites—using the same toxin-blocking proteins that snakes evolved to protect themselves. The team found that specific combinations of blood proteins from western diamondback rattlesnakes provided unprecedented neutralizing power against the venom of multiple dangerous snake species.
“This is one of those great stories when nature has already solved a problem we’ve been grappling with for decades,” said Carroll, who also holds the Andrew and Mary Balo and Nicholas and Susan Simon Endowed Chair at UMD.
A neglected treatment gap
Snakebites remain one of the world’s most neglected tropical diseases. The World Health Organization estimates that venomous snakebites kill 80,000 to 140,000 people each year and leave hundreds of thousands more with permanent disabilities. Many victims live in rural regions where access to effective antivenoms is limited.
Many of the great tribes of the northern and central Plains practiced this form of aerial burial. The Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota (Sioux), Crow, Cheyenne, Mandan, Assiniboine, Blackfeet, and Gros Ventre all used it at different times and in different places. When suitable trees were available, bodies were sometimes placed high in the branches instead. The same idea guided both methods.
The body was carefully wrapped in robes, blankets, or skins and laid on the platform, often with the person’s most important belongings: weapons, tools, a favorite pipe, food, tobacco. Sometimes the heads and tails of horses were fastened to the poles so the spirit would have mounts for the journey. Orientation mattered. Crow people commonly placed the feet toward the east. Mandan often directed them southeast, toward the old country around the Heart River.
The reasons were both practical and spiritual. In winter the ground could freeze solid for feet. Wolves and dogs would dig up shallow graves. A scaffold kept the body clean and intact while the spirit made its way. Relatives could still visit, speak to the dead, and leave offerings. Some groups later collected the cleaned bones for secondary burial in the earth, in rock crevices, or in special places near the village. The Mandan arranged the bleached skulls in careful circles on the prairie. Nineteenth-century travelers recorded these scenes in detail.
Karl Bodmer’s famous 1830s image of a Sioux chief’s funeral scaffold near Fort Pierre remains one of the clearest visual records. Later photographs from Crow and Dakota country show the same quiet platforms standing alone on open ground.
This was never a single uniform custom across all Native peoples. It belonged especially to the mobile horse cultures of the grasslands, where the horizon was wide and the relationship between the living, the dead, and the open sky was close. The scaffolds were temporary homes for the body while the spirit traveled on.
President Trump warned the storming of a small Spanish enclave by tens of thousands of migrants would look “small time” compared to what happens in the US if voters pick open-border Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.
Speaking at Camp David Friday, the president called the sudden mass migration into Ceuta a “catastrophe,” and said the harrowing footage showing the lawlessness breaking out at the Moroccan border “looks like an invasion.”
No sooner had the migrants breached the border than some started bathing in city fountains and using city streets as their own personal toilets.
Some 60,000 Moroccan immigrants, many of them military-aged men, barged their way into Ceuta, a Spanish territory on the north African coast.ZUMAPRESS.com
“And that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected, except worse. Much bigger, much easier to get into, despite the fact that we have built thousands of miles of wall, which I said we were going to do,” Trump told reporters.
Plus they outbreed citizens and are paid to have children. This is asymmetric war being conducted by infiltrators and traitors. It is not something else. ABN
This is an interesting clip on its own but it is also worth viewing because it shows how this investigation has been conducted — through crowd-sourced tips. Crowd-sourcing is one way we the plebs can regain some control of our nations and lives. With the power of crowd-sourcing, corrupt law enforcement will find it much more difficult to gaslight the public or railroad innocent patsies. ABN
UPDATE: A second point worth making is many of the tips Owens is receiving are coming from Utah local and state law enforcement who are not corrupt and who disapprove of how the FBI has been handling this case. ABN
A Russian missile that landed in Poland on Thursday was capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the NATO member state has revealed.
Poland’s Deputy Minister of National Defence told local broadcaster TVN24 last night that the Kh-101 missile that ‘exploded’ and left a 33ft-wide crater near the border with Ukraine was ‘potentially very dangerous’.
NATO has since said it has been in contact with Polish authorities and warned that it would ‘take all necessary measures to defend NATO territory.’
Mark Rutte, Secretary-General of NATO, called the incident ‘yet another reckless act by Russia and a dangerous consequence of its war against Ukraine.’
Europe has already been goaded into two world wars by ‘bankers’. USA has been goaded into multiple smaller wars by ‘bankers’ and Zionists. If it happens again in Europe and the entire region is demolished, it will be because the West is already long lost to enemy infiltration and takeover. If Trump bows to the shotgun marriage between USA and Israeli militaries, the probability of a super destructive WW3, which may go nuclear, will be very high. ABN
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