Dan Crenshaw

We need to increase defense spending.

You should be doubling it. You should be tripling it.

This is not a sustainable operation in Ukraine.

I still support bringing our allies back.

We need to listen to their- to what they want.

You need to be uncomfortably aggressive.

You have to be uncomfortably aggressive against Putin.

Stop following our lead and actually take the lead.

Putin only responds to power.

You walk into a negotiation with everything on the table.

Of course, actual allies need to be brought home.

You should be threatening things to Putin that actually make you uncomfortable because that's how - that's the only language Putin speaks is power.

We listen to Zelenskyy. And I want to listen to other European leaders as well, but I want them to be uncomfortably aggressive.

Nothing is off the table, economic, military. They will use the amount of leverage they can.

We need to get him to that table.

The kind of peace we're talking about is a lasting peace, which, of course, involves security assurances.

If you want a seat at the table, earn it.

You need to be talking about where you're going to be putting actual troops on the ground.

If we want to win, if we want a better outcome for Ukraine at the end of these peace talks, you need to be uncomfortably aggressive.

You shouldn't be matching it, you should be doubling it. You should be tripling it.

The reason they're stuck is because Joe Biden pulled out of Afghanistan.

If Kamala Harris had been president, you'd be going along the same lines.

There's a path forward here.

You can use a lot of leverage.

That’s why the American people get tired over these wars — the desire not to be wasteful.