Lloyd Austin actually said...

"We've got to 'Move at the speed of war.'"

"The U.S. would like to see Russia weakened, militarily, essentially that the U.S. wants to see Russia weakened, so much that it can't repeat, what we are seeing, happening, in Ukraine, now, in other a..."

"the U.S. goal is for Russia to be weakened militarily, saying today that the U.S. wants to make it harder for Russia to threaten its neighbors."

"We want to see Russia weakened, to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done, in invading Ukraine."