Pentagon chief says NATO allies can't have 'reliance' on US

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"Our message is going to continue to be clear: It's deterrence and peace through strength, but it can't be reliance. It cannot and will not be reliance on America," US defence chief Pete Hegseth says during a joint press conference with NATO chief Mark Rutte in Brussels ahead of a meeting with his NATO counterparts.

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00:00The reason I'm here is to make sure every country in NATO understands every shoulder has to be to the plow.

00:07Every country has to contribute at that level of 5% as a recognition of the nature of the threat.

00:15But our message is going to continue to be clear.

00:19It's deterrence and peace through strength, but it can't be reliance.

00:23It cannot and will not be reliance on America.

00:26In a world of a lot of threats, where America is poised to help take on those threats,

00:31I was just recently in the Indo-Pacific.

00:33We were very clear about those threats.

00:35We're prepared to step up.

00:37We need our allies to step up as well as we stand alongside them.

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