Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewych, US presidential nominee for SACEUR pictured during his June 24 Senate confirmation hearing. (Photo by the US Department of Defense)
US Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich told a Senate confirmation hearing that “any time your own homeland is threatened, you fight with a tenacity that’s difficult for us to conceive of.”
US President Donald Trump’s nominee for the post of Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), Lt Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, faced a Senate confirmation hearing on June 24 alongside Vice Admiral Charles Cooper, nominated to be Commander of the US Central Command.
Grynkewich was questioned on a range of security issues that the US currently faces, including the war in Ukraine, during which he said that he believed Ukraine could win a war against Russia.
Alabama’s Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville asked him why he thought that way, to which Grynkewich replied: “I think any time your own homeland is threatened, you fight with a tenacity that’s difficult for us to conceive of – if we haven’t found ourselves in that same situation.”
Grynkewich, who is currently the head of the Joint Chiefs’ Operations Directorate, was nominated by Trump to fill the post and become the most senior US commander in Europe, which was announced by the US Defense Secretary Pete Hesgeth on June 5.
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On the face of it, his view on the potential for a Ukrainian victory contradicts the publicly stated views of Trump and his team that there can be no military solution to the war in Ukraine and that Kyiv and Moscow must negotiate an end to the fighting. However, he went on to say:
…“The president has been very clear on his objectives in Ukraine are to achieve an end to the war and a ceasefire, and if confirmed, my responsibility will be to provide him a wide range of options in order to achieve that objective.”
Slava Ukraine!
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