National guard veteran and Fox News presenter has been a critic of military and has minimal managerial experience
’s pick for defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, a national guard veteran and Fox News presenter who has called for a purge of generals for pursuing “woke” diversity policies.
He has argued for faster provision of more US weapons to Ukraine for its defence against Russia, but also called US Nato membership into question. His nomination is also a boost for the far right in Israel, as he has shown support for territorial expansion and suggested that Jews could build a new temple on the sacred compound around al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, known to Jews as the Temple Mount.
He said: “There’s no such thing as a settlement. They’re communities. They’re neighbourhoods. They’re cities. There’s no such thing as an occupation” – a position dramatically at odds with current US policy and international law on occupied Palestinian territory. In his first term in the White House, Trump found himself at odds with the people he chose to run the Pentagon, but Hegseth has shown himself to be a loyalist with a shared hostility to the military establishment.
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