"Tucker Carlson called the war 'disgusting and evil' and then said of unconditional surrender, which the president has called for, means 'foreign troops get to r--e your wives and daughters,'" Hegseth, 46, said during a recent speaking engagement. The Fox News host believes the lack of ground force will lead to a need for nuclear weapons. "So, that's why it requires that level of force, to get a population subdued to the point of unconditional surrender. "And so in this case, of course we don't have the ground force necessary – I don't think Americans would voluntarily participate in it. Without buy-in from enough Americans, Carlson feared the military would need to turn to "weapons of mass destruction" like nuclear weapons.