“I can’t be able to save Europe again”, “I fully agree with your hatred for the European parasite, it is pathetic”: it is the exchange of messages between the US vice -president JD Vance and the secretary of defense Pete Hegseth, reported by the editor -in -chief of Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, who made it known that he had found himself by mistake in a chat on Signal, highly classified, Pentagon, the American vice president JD Vance and other leading officials.
In the chat there was talk of the US raids in Yemen and, reports the BBC, also of the possibility that the EU pays for US protection on key navigation routes. “Whether it is now or in a few weeks, the United States will have to reopen these navigation routes,” wrote the account associated with the National Security Councilor of the White House on 14 March, Michael Waltz. The message continued that, at the request of Trump, his team was working with the Department of Defense and the State Department “to determine how to calculate the associated costs and charge them to the European Championships”.
At one point the JD Vance account, this is the name of the vice -president, complained of the fact that the American raids would benefit the Europeans, due to their dependence on those navigation routes, adding: “I can’t stand that they have to save Europe again”. The Vance account continues by saying: “The 3 percent of US trade passes through Suez” against “40 percent of European trade. There is a real risk that the public does not understand this or because it is necessary. The strongest reason to do this is, as Potus (the US president) said, send a message ». The user identified as Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, replied three minutes later: «VP: I fully share your hatred for the European parasite. It’s pathetic. “