U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has picked as his secretary of defense Pete Hegseth, a Fox News commentator and veteran who has hit out at European NATO members’ defense spending and the U.S. support for Ukraine.
Pete Hegseth has been sharply critical of the United States’ European allies, and his selection could fuel even greater anxiety in NATO about what a Trump administration will mean for the alliance.
“Outdated, outgunned, invaded, and impotent. Why should America, the European ‘emergency contact number’ for the past century, listen to self-righteous and impotent nations asking us to honor outdated and one-sided defense arrangements they no longer live up to?” Hegseth wrote in his book, The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free, published earlier this year. Läs artikel