According to the website of The Politico in the United States, on December 6, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth launched a fierce criticism of U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War era, specifically criticized several former presidents and generals, and announced that the era of America's "utopian idealism" has ended.
The report said that Hegseth delivered a speech at the annual Reagan Defense Forum, outlining the new military focus on the Western Hemisphere, and demanding that allies defend themselves.
His speech emphasized the newly released National Security Strategy issued late on the 4th, which briefly introduced the Pentagon's upcoming military strategy, detailing the U.S. military's global priorities.
"Abandon the utopian idealism," he said, "embrace shrewd realism."
Hegseth said the United States should not be "distracted by democratic building, interventionism, vague wars, regime change, climate change, woke moralizing, and useless nation-building," but instead "put the country's actual interests first."
This Pentagon official also used this defense industry-focused forum to highlight the Trump administration's initiatives to shift strategic focus to domestic issues. Hegseth said the military would participate more in patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Hegseth praised the recent efforts of countries such as South Korea, Poland, and Germany to increase defense spending. "Allies are not children," he said, "we can and should expect them to fulfill their responsibilities."
He said the Trump administration would "naturally prioritize our homeland and the Western Hemisphere," "although threats in other regions still exist, our allies need to truly and substantially take responsibility."
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