Former Navy SEAL and conservative commentator Carl Higbie said the United States must put national security above all else, arguing that strength and military power are what truly protect the nation.

In a news segment that included a video clip of Senator Marco Rubio, both men emphasized that America’s safety and strength come before international opinion or treaties.

Higbie said that former President Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan understood the primacy of national security in U.S. policy.

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“I think Trump and Reagan are like the only people since we dropped the atom bomb to actually understand this, that there is really only one thing that matters,” he said.

A video clip of Rubio reinforced that message with a focus on security over politics.

“We will continue to seize the boats that are sanctioned with court orders. We will continue to do that and potentially other things, until the things we need to see addressed are addressed, because ultimately, above everything else, we care about elections, we care about democracy, we care about all of that, but the number one thing we care about is the safety, security, well being and prosperity of the United States,” Rubio said.

Higbie criticized the foreign policy approach of the Biden administration, particularly what he said were costly failures and misplaced priorities, and argued that treaties and agreements matter little without strength to enforce them.

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“Yep, and we don’t give a damn if that means removing dictators shipping drugs that kill our children to, you know, and allow adversaries to install missile installations near our shores,” Higbie said.

“You see, you can have all the agreements and international treaties and statesmanship you want, but none of that matters if you have more guns in the end, and we have a lot.”

He pointed to American military capacity as the basis for U.S. power in the world, noting the country’s fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

“So we don’t have to listen to anyone else, because we have 11 aircraft carriers that run on nuclear power plants, carrying more planes each than most countries entire air forces,” Higbie said.

Higbie said many foreign policy experts fail to appreciate this reality and cited what he described as repeated mistakes by Joe Biden’s foreign policy team.

“This is what is lost on all these experts on the internet and especially in the self proclaimed experts in Biden’s cabinet that gave us like a my rate of foreign policy failures, not I’m not even going in to Afghanistan,” he said.

He argued that nations that most loudly criticize American strength are often those that cannot defend themselves.

“The countries that cry the most about standards and statesmanship are generally the people that can’t defend themselves,” Higbie said.

Higbie was particularly critical of NATO and European contribution to collective defense, using a vivid analogy.

“This is why I think NATO is worthless. All these countries, these European countries, specifically not contributing their allotted amounts. They all talk tough like little chihuahua backed up by America, the Mastiff standing right behind them,” he said.

He also argued that European leaders’ reactions to Trump’s actions against Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro highlight what he views as misplaced priorities.

“How many European leaders, either outright, just condemned Trump for removing Maduro after saying that he had to go four years,” Higbie said, framing the criticism as a failure of allied leadership.

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