Mark Dubowitz

By the way, I mean, we all talk about Israel.

I mean, the Israelis are one of the best allies we could possibly have.

They fight and they die in their own defense.

They fought multiple wars against American enemies.

They haven't asked for American troops on the ground.

There are no boots on the ground in Israel defending Israel.

The best we've given them is we've given them a fad system to help them shoot down ballistic missiles that have aimed at them.

And our American pilots have been in the air recently with our Israeli friends shooting down ballistic missiles.

But the Israelis have had a warrior ethos.

We will fight and we will die in our own defense.

I would just say, if you're going to actually build out a model

where you're going to minimize the risk to American troops.

Let's find more allies like that, right?

I worry about, I'm like Scott, I really worry about China, Taiwan.

I really, really worry about that because the Taiwanese are not capable of defending themselves without U.S.

assistance.

And we may have to send American men and women to go defend Taiwan.

And we can have a whole debate about the wisdom of that.

But again, it would be very, very helpful to have more Israels in the world, more countries that are capable of fighting against common enemies and against common threats without having to always put American boots on the ground in order to do that.

Look, I'm not a Russia expert.