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It all started as a supposed mistake. The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added, possibly by a slip of the tongue, to a group chat of prominent of the Donald Trump istration. In this conversation, they talked about the imminent bombing of the United States in Yemen. But the text also presents devastating phrases against Europe.
For his part, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth categorically denied the content of The Atlantic article and hit out at the author of the text. "He is a discredited supposed journalist who has made a profession of selling hoaxes over and over again. He is the kind of person who works with garbage, that's what he does," he said.
JD Vance's criticism of Europe
The controversy has made numerous headlines. While waiting for the authorities and The Atlantic to shore up their versions, if they consider it, the truth is that the article in the aforementioned magazine contains statements that, if true, are absolutely forceful. Among them, one from the vice president of the United States, JD Vance, who refers to the old continent in this way.
"If you think we should do it, let's go. I hate having to rescue Europe again," replies JD Vance to Hegseth, according to The Atlantic, when the secretary of defense raises the need to reopen the Red Sea shipping routes with the attack on Yemen. Hegseth responds to the vice president and called it "pathetic" what he defined as "European opportunism."
The bill for pacifying the sea routes
The of this messaging group, which was developed in the Signal application, known for its greater encryption in communications, agree in criticising Europe for benefiting, at no cost, from the United States pacifying the sea lanes. They all agree that they should somehow charge the old continent.