Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the US House of Representatives, has praised President-elect Donald Trump for his focus on expanding America’s nuclear weapons stockpile, saying the strategy “is exactly right.”
In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Gingrich said, “I think for the next president to say, ‘You know, we’re going to have to systematically rebuild our nuclear capability,’ is exactly right.”
Gingrich, who has announced that he wanted to help the president-elect “strategically,” argued that Russia, China, North Korea are building up their nuclear and the US should capabilities “overmatch” them. “We have to candidly overmatch.”
“The truth is, the Russians have been rebuilding their nuclear capability,” he said. “We have allowed ours to weaken. The Chinese have been rebuilding their nuclear capability. The North Koreans are trying to build missiles to reach the continental United States.”
“The Iranians are trying to build…