White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed on Monday that President Donald Trump coined the term “peace through strength,” though its origin in United States politics actually dates back to the 1960s.
“Nobody knows what it means to accomplish peace through strength better than President Trump. He is the one who came up with that motto and that foreign policy doctrine, and he successfully implemented it in his first term,” Leavitt said on Fox News’s Fox & Friends on Monday. “The president wants peace, sometimes you have to use strength to achieve it, and he’s not afraid to use strength.”
The term “peace through strength” was popularized by President Ronald Reagan and was widely viewed as his policy on national security. However, he did not
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