On Thursday 13 February, at the end of the NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned that “President Trump will not allow anyone to turn Uncle Sam into Uncle Sucker”.
Mr Hegseth once again urged the Allies to spend more on defence, declaring that “we must make NATO great again” (see EUROPE B13578A11). Reiterating his country’s support for the Atlantic Alliance, Mr Hegseth acknowledged on his arrival that the world was “a safer - a freer...