BRUSSELS, June 18. /TASS/. NATO has been a "paper tiger" and a "one-way street" for too long – it’s time for a change, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said at a meeting of the alliance’s defense ministers.
He also announced that Washington is reviewing the issue of the continued deployment of US troops in Europe.
TASS has compiled the key statements by the US secretary of war.
NATO policy
The US will continue to convey to its NATO allies, both publicly and privately, the importance of increasing defense spending, as many commitments in the area of defense were made at the summit in The Hague. Many countries are following through on them, but some nations "still need to do more," Hegseth noted. NATO must once again become "a hardline military alliance" and play a leading role in Europe’s defense using "conventional" means.
