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On the recordApril 12, 2021
If you ask the Department of Defense and previous Administrations and I'll bet in this one, as well, who are our hard targets, who are our major adversaries in the world, they would usually report four pretty obvious ones, China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin identifies major global adversaries of the U.S.

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