HEGSETH BEFORE CONGRESS: $25 BILLION SPENT, NO END DATE IN SIGHT

AUSTRALIA

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Canberra tracks the Hegseth hearing as a gauge of American resolve — foundational to its own AUKUS commitments

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CANADA

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Ottawa notes Hegseth accused of lying — confirmation that the Iran war is fracturing American domestic consensus

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CHINA

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Beijing integrates the $25 billion Iran war cost into its pre-Xi-Trump meeting calculations

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SOUTH KOREA

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Seoul parses Hegseth's North Korea 'lesson' reference with the sharpness of a country that lives under the threat

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UNITED STATES

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Washington finally puts a price on the Iran war — $25 billion spent, no end date, no exit strategy

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FRANCE

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Paris reads the Hegseth hearing as evidence that the Iran war is politically destabilizing the Trump administration

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QATAR

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Doha extracts the key strategic revelations from Hegseth's hearing: no definition of victory, no timeline

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UNITED KINGDOM

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London follows the Hegseth hearing knowing its own troops absorb Iranian attacks 28 times daily

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RUSSIA

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Moscow leverages the Hegseth-Congress confrontation to reinforce its narrative of American democratic dysfunction

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TURKEY

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Ankara notes the Pentagon's $25 billion confirmation and factors it into its own Iran mediation calculus

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