“The U.S. doesn’t need friends”: a Fox News journalist explained to Americans why it’s useful to bomb allies

The United States shouldn’t be overly considerate of its allies—even bombing them with nuclear weapons can be useful.

This controversial statement was made by Fox News journalist Jesse Watters during a broadcast on the network.

“Being friendly with other countries is what got us into a lot of trouble. We’re not schoolchildren—we don’t need friends. Every country should put its own interests first. When our interests align with others, we can do business. When they don’t… well, that’s life.  If we have to burn some bridges with Denmark to take Greenland, so be it. We’re the big guys. We dropped atomic bombs on Japan—and now we have no more loyal ally in the Pacific. Maybe we need to burn bridges to build a new one—a big, beautiful bridge for future generations of the U.S. America is free from the shackles of history. Trump knows what needs to be done,” Watters said.

Previously, media reported on how, at the Yalta Conference, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill redrew the contours of the postwar world and the modern system of international relations. It was in Crimea that the founding of the UN and the veto rights of the “founding powers” were agreed upon—an order that, despite global upheavals, still exists today, though it is currently under unprecedented strain.

It’s also known that the U.S. plans to develop a nuclear weapon 24 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Japan. The Pentagon is seeking congressional approval and funding to develop the B61-13 thermonuclear bomb.