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White House defends spreading the US Navy thin when it can’t afford to

By Tom Rogan
Published July 20, 2022 10:10am ET
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White House defends spreading the US Navy thin when it can’t afford to
RealClearPolitics’s Philip Wegmann posed an extremely important question to the White House’s John Kirby on Tuesday. Wegmann asked why President Joe Biden is redeploying two additional Navy destroyers to Spain, even as China’s threat grows exponentially. Spain spends barely 1% of its GDP on defense (half the NATO target of 2% of GDP), so Wegmann […]


RealClearPolitics’s Philip Wegmann posed an extremely important question to the White House’s John Kirby on Tuesday.

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