Pete Hegseth: ‘China Is Building an Army to Defeat America’

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HEGSETH: “China's building an army specifically dedicated to defeating the United States of America. That is -- that is their strategic outset. Take hypersonic missiles. So if our whole -- if our -- our whole power projection platform is aircraft carriers and the ability to project power that way strategically around the globe, and yeah, we have a nuclear triad and all of that, but a big part of it, and if, you know, 15 hypersonic missiles can take out our 10 aircraft carriers in the first 20 minutes of a conflict, what does that look like?"