RT International This is what ‘America first’ looks like, envoy to NATO Matthew Whitaker says
Washington is suspending its supply of weapons to Ukraine as part of its “America first” policy, US envoy to NATO Matthew Whitaker has told Fox Business. It needs to make sure it has enough air defense systems in its own arsenal before anything else, he stated.
Several Western news media outlets, including Politico and NBC News, reported this week that the Pentagon had halted shipments of several categories of US-made weapons to Kiev.
The list reportedly included dozens of Patriot missile interceptors, Stinger and AIM air-to-air missiles, hundreds of Hellfire and GMLRS systems, as well as thousands of 155mm artillery shells.
The decision allegedly followed an internal review of American weapons reserves ordered by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
“This is what ‘America first’ looks like. We first have to take care about the United States’ needs,” Whitaker told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday. The Pentagon needs to “make sure that the US has the strategic defense capabilities necessary to project power,” he said, adding that this is what Washington and its NATO allies want.
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