Pete Hegseth

I didn't intentionally leave it off my list.

I look forward to working with the new defense minister there and enhancing those capabilities.

I think that relationship has been a very fruitful one for a very long time.

2% is not enough.

And so 2% is freeloading.

Today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies.

in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria.

Boats and men arrive.

When will European capitals do something about that invasion?

Or is it too late?

Today, as we face an increasingly complex threat environment, we apply the lessons from 82 years ago

learned on these beaches.

Strong allies, each fully committed to doing their part, win wars.

The men buried here fought in a warfighting alliance where every partner brought its full measure of industry, courage, and sacrifice.

Today, as we face an increasingly complex threat environment, we apply the lessons from 82 years ago learned on these beaches.

Strong allies, each fully committed to doing their part, win wars.

The men buried here fought in a warfighting alliance where every partner brought its full measure

of industry, courage, and sacrifice.

For too long, polite pleas from our European allies to spend more on their own defense fell on deaf ears.

They're finally playing catch-up, and we let ourselves get distracted by empty globalist rhetoric about the rules-based international order.