Lloyd Austin actually said...

the goal now is to weaken Russia, so that it cannot do this kind of thing again.

Lloyd Austin stated that the current goal is to weaken Russia's military capabilities.

05/05/2022

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If this doesn't stop, we will respond.

Putin is a strategic failure right now. He has not achieved any strategic objective that he set out to achieve.

the goal is to keep this limited and make sure the fighting we see in Gaza does not spread to the other parts of the Middle East.

The U.S. is worried about an escalation in the Middle East.