Exclusive: Order by Hegseth to cancel Ukraine weapons caught White House off guard

[highplainsdem]

Source: Reuters

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?

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The cancelations came after Trump wrapped up a January 30 Oval Office meeting about Ukraine that included Hegseth and other top national security officials, according to three sources familiar with the situation. During the meeting, the idea of stopping Ukraine aid came up, said two people with knowledge of the meeting, but the president issued no instruction to stop aid to Ukraine.

The president was unaware of Hegseth’s order, as were other top national security officials in the meeting, according to two sources briefed on the private White House discussions and another with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/order-by-hegseth-cancel-ukraine-weapons-caught-white-house-off-guard-2025-05-06/

[SheltieLover]

1. Hopefully hogbreah is on his way out...

Then again, the same can def be said for slobby & all in his admin...in more than one context.

[vapor2]

2. trump needs his fall guy

[Clouds Passing]

3. Kegsbreath took his orders directly from poopin.

[Wonder Why]

4. and bypassed his first line supervisor, krasnov. out the window with him.

[Ray Bruns]

5. I'd say this country was being run by the three stooges but at this point that would be a step up from what we have now.

[twodogsbarking]

6. So Trump admitted that he knew.

So Trump admitted that he knew. Deny, deny and deny that you denied anything.

[turbinetree]

7. So taxpayers paid an additional 2.2 million dollars to have the weapons sent.......when they should have been sent

the first time................and these assholes want to gut and cut the country into the dirt............hey senate your as incompetent by putting this guy in charge of the pentagon as the US Supreme Court giving your guy immunity...........your ruling on immunity has turned this country into a fourth rate state.............and the media still hasn't connected the dots yet........except for the MSNC 8-10 PM shows, Democracy Now ..............JFC..........

[ToxMarz]

8. Probably he was just bored and did it for shits and giggles (he doesn't have any real usefulness)

"Gee, what will happen if I push THIS button?"

[blue-wave]

9. Read this:

Does Pentagon Chief Hegseth Have a Russian Email Account?

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/49786

[maxsolomon]

10. Trump probably said to stop it, or said it, then said maybe not, then said do it, then said don't.

During the meeting, the idea of stopping Ukraine aid came up, said two people with knowledge of the meeting, but the president issued no instruction to stop aid to Ukraine

Yeah, right, "2 people with knowledge of the meeting". Cover for the dotard.

I've said this before: they're fucking clowns.