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Pete Hegseth: “The world saw, after decades of hemming and hawing, the…”

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth keynote address at the Reagan National Defense Forum.

Published | Video Starts at 12:29

They called it for two straight days a righteous strike. When they would have known within hours exactly what they struck. Weakness, wokeness, war. It's a new day with Operation Midnight Hammer. The world saw, after decades of hemming and hawing, the decisive effect of American military strength in obliterating the Iranian nuclear program. President Trump said, they can't have a nuclear bomb and he meant it. Others have said it. President Trump did it. This operation was a textbook example of the Weinberger doctrine in action. (12:29–12:38)

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Asserts that American military strength decisively impacted the Iranian nuclear program.

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