Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the decline of European NATO as a warfighting organisation has mirrored the continent’s crisis of faith in itself and the open borders era, telling a meeting of alliance leaders they now need to step up if they want America to keep contributing.
Hegseth appeared to make implicit that the U.S. would be reconsidering its deployment in Europe at the end of this six months and decisions would be based on which countries made solid guarantees on access to bases and overflight rights, and on which countries show that credible path to making their alliance spending commitments five per cent of GDP on defence investment.
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