Ben Cardin actually said...

"I think shocking is how far they believe now they can get away with this in our nation, as witnessed in what happened in the election."

"I believe that every Nation has a right to defend itself."

"We saw that in Montenegro parliamentary elections, where they tried to disrupt it so that Montenegro would not be eligible to join NATO."

"We have the European Deterrence Initiative as an effort to show, from a military point of view, we are prepared to stand up to Russia."