Pete Hegseth: “Increasing allied European defense spending is critical.”

“As much as we may not want to like the world we live in, in some cases there's nothing like hard power. It should be obvious that Increasing allied European defense spending is critical. As the President of the United States has said. Also critical is expanding our defense industrial base capacity on both sides of the Atlantic. Our dollars, our euros, our pounds must become real capabilities.” (05:59–06:03)

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