We are at long last putting America, Americans and the Americas first, ensuring peace through strength and restoring common sense at our department. We're doing it by restoring the warrior ethos, rebuilding our military to historic levels and re establishing deterrence in this hemisphere and around the world. World. For too long, leaders in Washington and their foreign policy functionaries abandoned the simple wisdom of the Monroe Doctrine. They were consumed with the United States only going abroad. (12:41–12:52)
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Asserts that the military is being rebuilt to historic levels and deterrence is being re-established.
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