When you change your job title to Secretary of War – as Donald Trump’s Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has attempted to do – it seems that conflict can find you everywhere.

At his first press conference in weeks, despite the conflict with Iran, a belligerent Hegseth seemed determined to set out how wonderfully operations against Iran were going, but time and again he kept taking swipes at other nations. Awkwardly, these were usually the USA’s allies.

Sounding at times more like a reality TV show loser than a senior government official, Hegseth said of Nato that “a lot has been laid bare, a lot has been shown to the world about what our allies would be willing to do…when we ask for additional assistance”.

It was the UK, though – whose politicians love to boast of the “special........

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