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‘You’re an embarrassment to this country,’ congressman Salud Carbaja told the defense secretary

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US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to acknowledge that the Pentagon has developed plans to take over Greenland and Panama by force if necessary.

During a combative congressional hearing on Thursday, he refused to answer repeated questions about his use of Signal chats to discuss military operations.