US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee thinks US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth made a “rookie mistake” earlier this week when he undercut Ukraine’s bargaining position with Russia before peace talks have even started.

In an address to Nato in Brussels on Wednesday, Hegseth, a former Fox News weekend host with no prior experience implementing defense policy, said it was “unrealistic” for Ukraine to expect a return to its prewar borders or to join Nato.

Hegseth also sharply criticised America’s closest military allies and said Nato wouldn’t rescue a European nation if it’s attacked by Russia.

“I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool,” Sen. Roger Wicker (Republican, Mississippi) told Politico in an interview at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, referring to Carlson’s

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