Lloyd Austin

It is not. It is one that would be controlled by autocrats, eventually, if they were to dominate the Indo-Pacific.

If you are me, it can never be fast enough. If you are a Ukrainian, you can never get it there fast enough.

We will do what is necessary to protect our troops and deter this kind of behavior.

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

I think Iran should be held accountable for the activities of these Iranian-backed.

No government or group that wishes Israel harm should try to widen this crisis or shed more blood.

What happens in Ukraine and what happens in Israel matters not to just Ukraine and Israel, it matters to us.

We have no higher priority than the safe return of their loved ones.

I have repeatedly made clear to Israel's leaders that protecting civilians in Gaza is both a moral responsibility and a strategic imperative.

If we do not support Ukraine, then Putin wins.

We will not let Hamas or Putin win.

Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people, and we mourn the loss of Palestinian lives.

The protection of our troops, the safety of our troops is very, very important to me and the President. And we maintain the right to respond at a place and time of our choosing.

We want to make sure that Ukraine, at the end of the day, is a democratic, independent, sovereign country that can defend its territory and deter aggression.

We will not hesitate to take further necessary measures in the region to protect our people.

As President Biden has said, American leadership is what holds the world together, and if we fail to lead, the costs and threats to the United States will only grow.

If this doesn't stop, then we will respond. We maintain the right to respond. We have a capability to do that, and we will respond at a time in place of our choosing.

If this doesn't stop, we will respond.

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.

I am here in person to make something personal clear. America's support for Israel is iron clad.

Democracies have a particular responsibility to uphold the laws of war.

It's not just a show of support, it is support. And it's just the leading edge of the border.

I know how hard you've been working. You've been really hustling to get this here as quickly as you could. And there's a lot more that follows this.

Now this is no time for neutrality, or for false equivalence, or for excuse says for the inexcusable. There is never any justification for terrorism, and that's especially true after this rampage by Hamas, and anyone who wants lasting…