If we allow the Russian aggression in Ukraine to go forward with impunity... we open a Pandora's box around the world.

President Biden is firmly committed to advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific, which is why this proposal asks for an 18% increase in our budget for that region over FY 2023.

We will be making those reports available, sharing that information with Congress within the next three weeks.

This budget will help us push back on advancing authoritarianism and democratic backsliding by strengthening democracies worldwide.

The strategy will focus, not just on the security aspects, but on promoting political engagement, on promoting economic cooperation.

We are meeting at an inflection point. The post-Cold War era is over.

I agree with you, the Taliban is taking steps that are digging an even deeper hole for the people of Afghanistan.

The immediate, acute threat posed by Russia's autocracy and aggression, most destructively, of course, through its brutal aggression against Ukraine.

We have had an almost perfect storm that has built up between climate change, between COVID, and of course conflict, and now, exacerbated dramatically by Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

We need to see that, but we also want to see steps taken to put Tunisia fully back on the democratic path it was on.

We continue to see democratic backsliding, and backsliding on human rights in a number of countries.

I do think that there is without exaggerating it a moment of opportunity here that would profoundly be in the interests of the people of Armenia as well as Azerbaijan.