Increasingly alarmed that U.S. security priorities lie elsewhere, a group of European countries has been working on a plan to send troops to Ukraine to help enforce any future peace settlement with Russia.

Top defense officials will conduct a reivew of U.S. troops deployed worldwide to determine future personnel levels overseas.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth unequivocally ruled out the involvement of American troops in a contingent that could enforce peace on the Russians after the end of the war in Ukraine. The burden of responsibility now rests on Europe.