This is why we basically provide the defense of Western Europe, the Gulf Emirates and the Middle east around the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea and all the way up to Japan and Korea around the rim of the Eurasian landmass. President Trump is totally shifting [the defense strategy] back to hemispheric defense. from the Panama Canal to Greenland and the Arctic and the Pacific all the way to the island change to kind of hermetically seal the United States that in and of itself on any one President's term would be monumental. (26:13–26:17)
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Asserts that President Trump is shifting U.S. defense strategy to focus on hemispheric defense.
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