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Back to Podcast EpisodesTrump-Europe-Ukraine Meeting: Selling Division of Labor and Strategic Sequencing
As stated as early as February of this year by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaking to European leaders at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, Europe was tasked with taking over Washington’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine by ramping up NATO spending, arms production, and the transfer of material support to Ukraine, allowing the US to pivot to the Asia-Pacific prioritizing the containment of China there..."
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First Principles
NEO - Trump-Europe-Ukraine Meeting: Selling Division of Labor and Strategic Sequencing (Aug. 20, 2025):
https://journal-neo.su/2025/08/20/trump-europe-ukraine-meeting-selling-division-of-labor-and-strategic-sequencing/
US DoD - Opening Remarks by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Feb. 12, 2025):
https://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4064113/opening-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-at-ukraine-defense-contact/
Marathon Initiative - Strategic Sequencing, Revisited (2024):
https://themarathoninitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Strategic-Sequencing-Revisited-Final-2024-10.pdf
NYT - U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP (1992):
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/world/us-strategy-plan-calls-for-insuring-no-rivals-develop.html
NYT - The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin (Feb. 2024):
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html
NYT - The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine (Mar. 29, 2025):
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html
RAND Corporation - Extending Russia, Competing from Advantageous Ground (2019):
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3063/RAND_RR3063.pdf
Continuity of Agenda
Guardian - Iran and Russia stand to lose from US deal with Azerbaijan and Armenia (Aug. 9, 2025):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/09/iran-and-russia-stand-to-lose-from-us-deal-with-azerbaijan-and-armenia
Bloomberg - US, Gulf Pressure to Fully Disarm Hezbollah Puts Lebanon on Edge (Aug. 9, 2025):
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-09/us-gulf-pressure-to-fully-disarm-hezbollah-puts-lebanon-on-edge
ABC News - US, Philippines discuss missile system deployments as tensions rise (Aug. 14, 2025):
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-philippines-discuss-missile-system-deployments-tensions-rise-124641077
Past for Future
Guardian - US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (2004):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa
NYT - In Ukraine Conflict, Putin Relies on a Promise That Ultimately Wasn’t (2022):
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/09/us/politics/russia-ukraine-james-baker.html
AP - No apologies: Germany’s Merkel defends approach to Ukraine (2022):
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-politics-berlin-germany-20b29c43618d4d711d62c07b589de4b1
RFE/RL - After Meeting Russian Foreign Minister, Clinton Hails Fresh Start (2009):
https://www.rferl.org/a/After_Meeting_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Clinton_Hails_Fresh_Start__/1505696.html
Reuters - Georgia started war with Russia: EU-backed report (2009):
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE58T4MO/#:~:text=The%20report%20said,into%20Georgia%20proper.
Chatham House - Why the Belarusian revolutio
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