On the recordJuly 13, 2023
As a 31-year Army veteran myself, and a grateful father of four sons who have served overseas in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt, I believe very much in the principles of Ronald Reagan, peace through strength. I am very grateful that, in fact, President Donald Trump was the first person to recognize and try to stop the war in Ukraine. He sent javelin missiles to stop Putin, war criminal Putin. He put American troops in Poland, which had the effect of stopping war criminal Putin. He also warned the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and others that Nord Stream 2 should be closed and stopped to avoid the funding of any war by war criminal Putin. So in that tradition, I would oppose any cutting of the defense because we know this is a worldwide war that we are in of authoritarians versus democracies. This is not a war we chose. War criminal Putin is the person who started the war February 24.
