Lloyd Austin

The goal of the United States is to weaken Russia so that they can't do something like this again.

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

I wanted to weaken the Russian result that is weaken their ability to replace military assets.

Again, China is listed as our pacing challenge. Russia is listed as an acute threat.

It doesn't necessarily support the way that we operate today.

I am absolutely fully committed to modernizing the Triad.

The supplementals that you provided us to this point have been very helpful in going after the kinds of things that you mentioned.

We're also deeply focused on the terrible problem of suicide in the U.S. military.

I emphasized the importance of accountability, as well.

Our budget seeks more than $56 billion for air power platforms and systems and more than $40 billion to maintain our dominance at sea.

The President's $773 billion defense budget request would provide the Department of Defense with the resourcing we need to address the threats that America faces

American vision and leadership have been pillars of international peace and prosperity.

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.

Ukraine clearly believes that it can win. And so does everyone here.

We think they can win. Everyone here thinks they can win. What winning means to be determined.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.