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
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