Trump Vows to Raise US Defense Spending, Citing China, Russia 'Getting Bigger'

NAMPA / Sputnik

2025-02-11

MOSCOW, February 11 (RIA Novosti) - US President Donald Trump announced the increase in US defense spending, as he believed main US adversaries, Russia and China, were "getting bigger." "We want to raise defense spending, I think we have to have it. One of the reasons I can speak with authority is we really do have amazing military, but, but they [China and Russia] are also getting bigger," Trump said in an interview with Fox News....

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