Lloyd Austin

Nobody wants to see a nuclear war. Nobody can win that. I think it's unhelpful and dangerous for the rattle sabers and speculate about the use of nuclear weapons.

On the world stage, we`ve got, you know, what Secretary of Defense Lloyd`s Austin said it was a moral clarity helping Ukraine defend itself as a democracy that has been invaded, right?

I'd like this whole group today to leave with a common and transparent understanding of Ukraine's near term security requirements because we're going to keep moving heaven and earth so that we can meet them.

Ukraine can win this war if they have the right support, and we want to give them the right support.

We need resources matched to strategy, strategy matched to policy, and policy matched to the will of the American people. This budget gives us the resources we need to deliver on that promise.

Putin never imagined that the world would rally behind Ukraine so swiftly and surely.

We all start today from a position of moral clarity. Russia is waging a war of choice to indulge the ambitions of one man. Ukraine is fighting a war of necessity, to defend its democracy, its sovereignty, and its citizens.

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 areas of the region.

What I think it is, Jen, is it is dangerous that any kind of rhetoric like that, you know, I think is unhelpful. You know, we've said over and over again that a nuclear war cannot be won by either side.

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

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 had a warm, candid, and productive discussion with President Zelenskyy and his team about the support that we`re providing and the capabilities that Ukraine needs.

The U.S. goal is for Russia to be weakened militarily.

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.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to host a big meeting tomorrow at the U.S. airbase in Germany, the Ramstein Air Base. The topic of the meeting is Ukraine.

They have the mindset that they want to win. We have a mindset that we want to help them win. And we are going to do that.

We want to see Russia weakened to a degree that it can`t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.

It must now be the goal of Ukraine’s allies, including the United States, to weaken the Russian military so they can’t do stuff like this anymore.

In terms of our -- their ability to win, the first step in winning is believing that you can win. And so they believe that we can win. We believe that we can win -- they can win, if they have the right equipment, the right support. And…

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. So it has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly.

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.

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.

Vaccination against COVID-19 is a readiness issue, and we require a ready and healthy force to continue to defend the nation.

Just because you have the capability, it doesn`t mean that you`re going to overwhelm another force easily. Now, the Russians have significant mechanized capability, but as you look at the techniques and tactics, the procedures that they…

I certainly don't agree with embracing socialism.