Joe Cunningham
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333 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 5 Mar
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It's about prioritizing the homeland and understanding, frankly, the MAGA base, who I think defines it, which is they're tired of forever wars.
They don't like seeing American blood and treasure be spilled and soiled in battlefields that are much further away than our own border.
So I think it's about priorities, but I don't even know how to really answer that in the current landscape.
If I could add one, I think maybe two things.
One, where the Trump administration is doing well, and what I think sort of means, at least to me, America first foreign policy.
I do think you're seeing the Pentagon try to overhaul a lot of the kind of weapon purchasing orders, FMS processes.
I think they're trying to collaborate more with defense tech, which I think is sort of pushing a lot of the conflict of boots on the ground that we're talking about to this sort of
weird area where it's not even necessarily kinetic, right?
Sort of what you see with Venezuela, and I'm not just talking because that was done under drug authorities, but you see this sort of more precision strikes that don't even necessitate, right, deploying mass amounts of people.
But conversely, I also think that something that I would argue we're seeing a bit of straying away from
which is, I think, in addition to prioritizing the border here in the United States, I also think that countering the Chinese Communist Party and seeing them as the existential threat that they are is a bedrock, not just of the economic policy of President Trump, but of this sort of idea of what calculates
how we calculate deploying forces, deploying weapons, all that.
And I think that that calculus, I think, is sort of being thrown by the wayside when a third of our military assets are being put in the Middle East, when they're being put into CENTCOM and pulled from INDO-PACOM.
That's something that I don't necessarily think falls under at least my understanding of America First foreign policy.
Yeah.
I mean, tell me about it.
This is a question I've been asking myself.
And, you know, I think even to link this to what you were talking about before, even I think this kind of military adventurism in all these countries, whether it's Venezuela or the previous Iran strikes, you know, both of those countries use Chinese air defense systems.
And we basically revealed that we have the ability to, you know, conveniently turn those off and fly very stealthily into these countries, into these regions.
That's the same air defense system that, you know, China uses in their own country, which I think is very relevant when it comes to the actual potentially maybe kinetic flashpoint that I do think.
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