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The U.S. military under President Donald Trump is now free to fight wars without its hands tied behind its back, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller has claimed.
Miller celebrated the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran as “politically incorrect” and lashed out at what he called the “woke Pentagon” under previous administrations.
“What you're seeing right now … is a military under President Trump's leadership that is not fighting politically correct. That isn't fighting with its hands tied behind its back,” Miller said.
”One of the reasons why people lost faith in the military and the capacity to use that military to defend us is because we had a woke Pentagon. Because we had a military who at the very highest level – not the war-fighters – was forced to fight a less than full fight.”
open image in galleryWhite House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has lashed out at the ‘woke Pentagon’ (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)The reported death toll from the US-Israeli s..
CloseNext round of talks on war settlement likely to take place in US, says ZelenskyA senior Russian general has been rushed to hospital after being shot in Moscow, state media reported on Friday.
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev is deputy chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff at the Defence Ministry.
When Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin staged a short-lived mutiny in June 2023, Alexeyev was one of the top officials who were sent to negotiate with him.
Several senior Russian military officials have been assassinated since the start of the war in Ukraine. Moscow has blamed the attacks on Kyiv.
The news came as the US and Russia said they would restart high-level dialogue between their militaries, a level of engagement that was suspended late in 2021 ahead of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
The agreement is one of the few tangible outcomes from much-anticipated trilateral peace talks between the US, Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi over the past two..
Donald Trump has announced a 10 per cent global tariff on “all countries” to replace ones struck down by the Supreme Court, calling the ruling “terrible” and branding the justices who rejected his trade policy as “fools”.
The US president’s “reciprocal tariffs”, imposed on most of the rest of the world last April under an emergency powers law, were overturned by the US Supreme Court on Friday in a major blow to the president’s economic agenda.
But he doubled down on imposing levies following the decision, claiming the court “has been swayed by foreign interests” and other countries were “dancing in the streets, but they won’t be dancing for long, that I can assure you”.
The UK scrambled to respond in the wake of the announcement, with ministers saying they expect the country’s “privileged trading position with the US” to continue following the Supreme Court’s ruling.
The UK received the lowest tariff rate of 10 per cent, and a subsequent deal struck by Sir Keir Starmer and Mr Trump saw..