We have to be smarter, we have to figure that out.
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Smith stresses the need for smarter budgeting amid shrinking defense budgets.
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This isn’t Israel’s fault that Donald Trump decided to bomb [Iran] . . . He’s the president of the United States, he doesn’t have to do what Israel wants.
I’m deeply worried that [Colby] buys into the authoritarian worldview that you know, Putin’s a dictator, and Xi is a dictator, and Trump aspires to be a dictator, so let’s just let all the dictators get together and divide up the world.
The military is being required to spend resources and time on this, instead of training and preparing to meet the national security needs of the country.
I don't think it's particularly bad that they have the conversation. What's bad, to date, is that President Trump has not shown, I think, the unity behind Ukraine to really put pressure on Putin.





