There is a “great sigh of relief” overseas after President-elect Donald Trump’s win on Tuesday, Robert Wilkie, who served as the secretary of Veterans Affairs under Trump’s first presidency, told Newsmax on Thursday.

“I can tell you, having been traveling, particularly through Eastern Europe, that there is a great sigh of relief amongst those who are on the border with the Russian Federation, particularly, and also in the Middle East with Israel and the leading Sunni Arab states,” Wilkie told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.”

That’s because while Trump was in office before, there was peace in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. After all, Trump “understood the uses of America’s deterrent power,” the former secretary said.

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