Senator Tim Sheehy

But as you well know, during the Obama years and then especially during the last four Biden years, which, as you know, is basically with the same foreign policy extension, except far worse. was we saw weakness all over the world, and that weakness abets enemy strength.

And we saw that when we pulled out of Afghanistan, that kicked off a domino effect that led to the Russia-Ukraine war, led to the disgusting Hamas attack on Israel and the proxies all over the region becoming emboldened.

And we saw that when we pulled out of Afghanistan, that kicked off a domino effect that led to the Russia-Ukraine war, led to the disgusting Hamas attack on Israel and the proxies all over the region becoming emboldened.

And we saw that when we pulled out of Afghanistan, that kicked off a domino effect that led to the Russia-Ukraine war, led to the disgusting Hamas attack on Israel and the proxies all over the region becoming emboldened.

And what we've seen in the last 120 days is strength, focus, and aggression to make sure our military is focused on one thing, and that is killing the enemy and bringing home our men and women alive.

And what we've seen in the last 120 days is strength, focus, and aggression to make sure our military is focused on one thing, and that is killing the enemy and bringing home our men and women alive.

And what we've seen in the last 120 days is strength, focus, and aggression to make sure our military is focused on one thing, and that is killing the enemy and bringing home our men and women alive.

We should be very worried, Ben, because you'll hear the term near-peer conflict thrown around all the time. We've got to be ready for near-peer, near-peer this, near-peer that. I don't know who they think the near-peer is, but the reality is right now China builds ships 230 times faster than we do. They have a standing army that by some accounts is 10 times bigger than ours is.

We should be very worried, Ben, because you'll hear the term near-peer conflict thrown around all the time. We've got to be ready for near-peer, near-peer this, near-peer that. I don't know who they think the near-peer is, but the reality is right now China builds ships 230 times faster than we do. They have a standing army that by some accounts is 10 times bigger than ours is.

We should be very worried, Ben, because you'll hear the term near-peer conflict thrown around all the time. We've got to be ready for near-peer, near-peer this, near-peer that. I don't know who they think the near-peer is, but the reality is right now China builds ships 230 times faster than we do. They have a standing army that by some accounts is 10 times bigger than ours is.

Just about a week and a half ago, last week, we had Pakistan and India face off in an air dominance battle that really we haven't seen an air superiority battle like that in several decades. It appears as if the Chinese integrated air dominance technology beat the Western technology five to zero. So that's a very big concern for those of us who are watching carefully because

Just about a week and a half ago, last week, we had Pakistan and India face off in an air dominance battle that really we haven't seen an air superiority battle like that in several decades. It appears as if the Chinese integrated air dominance technology beat the Western technology five to zero. So that's a very big concern for those of us who are watching carefully because

Just about a week and a half ago, last week, we had Pakistan and India face off in an air dominance battle that really we haven't seen an air superiority battle like that in several decades. It appears as if the Chinese integrated air dominance technology beat the Western technology five to zero. So that's a very big concern for those of us who are watching carefully because

We all hope we don't have to go to war again. Ben, I know you hope that. Your family and friends in Israel have been fighting for the last year and a half. We know how brutal war is. We do not want to go to war, but we owe it to our people, especially our young men and women in uniform, that we are ready for the war when it comes. And America, unfortunately, in our track record,

We all hope we don't have to go to war again. Ben, I know you hope that. Your family and friends in Israel have been fighting for the last year and a half. We know how brutal war is. We do not want to go to war, but we owe it to our people, especially our young men and women in uniform, that we are ready for the war when it comes. And America, unfortunately, in our track record,

We all hope we don't have to go to war again. Ben, I know you hope that. Your family and friends in Israel have been fighting for the last year and a half. We know how brutal war is. We do not want to go to war, but we owe it to our people, especially our young men and women in uniform, that we are ready for the war when it comes. And America, unfortunately, in our track record,

is we usually have to absorb a lot of pain and a lot of losses before we change our behavior and last time we had great power competition in the pacific we got our ass kicked for the first year there's a lot of ships at the bottom of the ocean and a lot of dead americans because we were not ready to face off against this threat right now china has been preparing they are more prepared than we are we've seen a massive atrophy of our base infrastructure in the pacific and most importantly our ability to build replace and maintain our naval vessels which have been the guarantors of freedom of navigation around the entire world for the last 80

is we usually have to absorb a lot of pain and a lot of losses before we change our behavior and last time we had great power competition in the pacific we got our ass kicked for the first year there's a lot of ships at the bottom of the ocean and a lot of dead americans because we were not ready to face off against this threat right now china has been preparing they are more prepared than we are we've seen a massive atrophy of our base infrastructure in the pacific and most importantly our ability to build replace and maintain our naval vessels which have been the guarantors of freedom of navigation around the entire world for the last 80

is we usually have to absorb a lot of pain and a lot of losses before we change our behavior and last time we had great power competition in the pacific we got our ass kicked for the first year there's a lot of ships at the bottom of the ocean and a lot of dead americans because we were not ready to face off against this threat right now china has been preparing they are more prepared than we are we've seen a massive atrophy of our base infrastructure in the pacific and most importantly our ability to build replace and maintain our naval vessels which have been the guarantors of freedom of navigation around the entire world for the last 80

here. So I'm very concerned, Ben. I know that many of my former, sorry, many of my comrades in the Senate are equally concerned on both sides of the aisle, I might add. Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia has been a great voice of reason, too, in this saying we need to make sure our Navy's ready. So we've got a lot of work to do.