Pete Hegseth: “After four years of deferred maintenance under the Biden…”

“And that is the point which leads to our third restore the warrior ethos, rebuild the military and third, re establish deterrence. After four years of deferred maintenance under the Biden administration, after a disastrous retreat from Afghanistan, which we are still investigating and we'll get completely to the bottom of, especially DOD's role. After what happened in October 7th in Israel, after the war that was unleashed in Ukraine, the world saw what it after a friggin spy balloon flew over our country for a week, the world saw what it believed was a feckless America.” (22:25–22:40)

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