Everything Hegseth states is based in hate. Ethnic based hate. Europe is nothing but ethnic. The French, the Germans, the Italians, the British, etc. That is what people are hearing. For crying out loud his wife scared school children.
The USA has treaties and the legislature is responsible for those treaties. NATO is intact. The USA has a responsibility to Europe. There is no pulling out of NATO.
Ukraine has contracts with other countries and those contracts need to be respected, including the USA military industrial complex. That is who Ukraine is dealing with, CEOs, not Trump. The Congress approves sales of the military industrial complex and the companies make the weapons. Ukraine should have a lobbyist in Washington, DC that keeps things moving along. There are many Congresspersons that understand the circumstances.
The Post Soviet countries do not want to go back and that includes Ukraine. That is respected and the USA legislature is respecting those countries that value freedom.