Mike Waltz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And others are going to come in and try to get a control of these gangs and get control of the situation.
We're actually we've rebranded it to call it the gang suppression force and gave it given them much more of an offensive mandate.
So whether it's places like Haiti or the absolute humanitarian crisis, that is Sudan or.
the President Trump's peace plan in Gaza.
We're now going to get an international force in there to keep the peace in Gaza.
We got our hostages out.
The UN blessed President Trump's peace plan.
So sharing the burden and having a mechanism where everyone can come in and do that is also important.
We've just got to get it back focused on those peacekeeping and peace enforcement
missions, uh, that they did so well in the past and that they strayed from in recent decades.
Yeah.
I mean, are you one of these people that has your position changed?
Cause when you were in Congress, I mean, you openly advocated for defunding the UN and you'd spotlight a lot of the problems they had.
I mean, I remember the things you said about how they let China influence their handling of the COVID pandemic.
Um,
Do you no longer think that defunding is an option?
Should that be a threat?
No.
Well, it's composed of 82 agencies, and we need to get out of the ones that aren't going to work for us or work against us.
So you mentioned COVID.