Roger Wicker actually said...

Experience over the past decade demonstrates that the demand for amphibious warships will not decrease.

The Russian position, no one in the world believes it, is that these are not Russian troops which have occupied Crimea.

I think that is an unacceptable position for the United States to take.

But that does not give them any right whatsoever to occupy that part of the Crimean peninsula that is not on the base.