️🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷 US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discusses the growing cooperation with Latin American countries against drug cartels, and highlights Washington's efforts to deal with Chinese, Russian and Iranian influence in the Western Hemisphere.
“They didn’t have leadership, and they didn’t have abilities. So when they saw us taking the lead with the South Hannel in the drug boats, seeing the operation with Nicolas Maduro, they saw what we could do about the siege around Venezuela. They said, we want it. This is the American leadership. We don’t want our commercial partner in China and Russia and our commercial partner. A choice and therefore the counter-cartel coalition has grown very quickly because of it, but you are also on an important point.