Textový prepis prejavu Tommyho Tubervilla v Americkom senáte 25.septembra 2024

Submitted by starosta on Mon, 09/30/2024 - 00:07

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um Mr President I rise today to talk
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about the unwinable war in
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Ukraine which has already cost American
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taxpayers billions of dollars now anyone
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who dares question the unit party's
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narrative on the war in Ukraine is
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obviously going to get
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criticized that's okay the media has
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been complicit in pushing this
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narrative think about when was was the
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last time you saw live footage footage
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on the ground in
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Ukraine it's rare because Ukraine is
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losing and is losing badly this comes
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after we just gave Ukraine 6 billion
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dollar
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more of taxpayer money earlier this year
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to prolong this War I see President
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zalinski a uni party puppet is here
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begging begging for more money on a
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campaign trail with Camala Harris it
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feels like he's here every other month
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demanding more and more taxpayer money
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that's because he knows that the money
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spot will cut off if Cala Harris doesn't
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win in
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November look this subject is too
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important to go
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unaddressed over the last several months
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I've asked multiple high ranking members
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of the Biden Harris Administration to
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articulate what it is trying to
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accomplish in Ukraine just tell us tell
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us what it'll cost and how we plan to
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achieve these results basically I'm
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asking what is our game
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plan not one official in this
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Administration has answered my questions
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clearly not one one of the most
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interesting responses I received was
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from secretary a himself Secretary of
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Defense he says we want to see Ukraine
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remain a sovereign independent and
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Democratic state that has the ability to
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defend itself and its territory and
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deter
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aggression okay secretary Austin
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continued stating that it is the
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administration's goal to bring Ukraine
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into NATO while I'm taneously blaming
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Russia for NATO's past expansion
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now here's when the DC establishment
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really really gets
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upset I'm going to review a few
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undeniable facts about NATO's
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history predictably the unip party will
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accuse me of spewing Russian propaganda
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but these are the facts and that's what
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we have to go by and we can't shy away
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from them NATO was formed 75 years ago
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in 19 1949 as a defensive Alliance to
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counter the Communist Soviet
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Union it was wildly successful in that
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it maintained peace through deterrence
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throughout the Cold War NATO helped us
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win the Cold War and dissolve communist
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Soviet Union when the Cold War ended in
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1991 Ukraine instantly became the
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world's third
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largest nuclear power Ukraine
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following a series series of
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negotiations ukrainians agreed to give
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up their nuclear weapons in exchange for
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security guarantees from both Russia and
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NATO territorial integrity and political
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Independence these efforts were
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successful because they included
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assurances by many many heads of state
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including our own that would no up
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Eastward expansion of NATO towards
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Russia ever happened it was over at that
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time there were 16 NATO
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members today 33 years
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later after this
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agreement there are
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32 NATO
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members even though in
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1991 we agreed to no more Eastward
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expansion we broke the agreement
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we NATO and United States NATO has
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expanded Eastward seven times since that
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agreement in
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1991 the largest expansion in 2004 four
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included two countries that share a
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border with Russia Estonia
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Lativia today NATO includes three
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countries that border Russia six NATO
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members are Warsaw former Warsaw packed
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m MERS the bulk of this expansion
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happened before Russia annexed Crimea
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and invaded part of Ukraine in
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2014
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again these are all the facts all play
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apart in the NATO story and Russia's
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response to
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it here's another fact NATO's expansion
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was on NATO's
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terms separate and apart from any Russ
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input or activity let me read that
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again NATO expansion was a NATO on
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NATO's terms separate and apart from any
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Russian input or activity contrary to
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secretary Austin's claims ask
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yourself how would the US
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react if China or Russia entered a
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mutual defense
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organization with Mexico or Canada how
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would we
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react what if what if they started
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basing troops or participating in
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military exercises just miles from our
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homeland having covered a brief history
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of NATO let's ask logical follow-up
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questions that we should always ask
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before involving oursel in any armed
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conflict first how far are we willing to
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take this proxy war with Russia how far
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are we did we think about that before we
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got into
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this are we committed to winning as
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Russia's president is Vladimir Putin are
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we committed to winning what happens if
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the momentum
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turns what happens if it turns against
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Ukraine and Russia starts making real
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gains as it appears is happening
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today will the US send more taxpayer
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money more weapons will NATO send troops
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with the United States send troops
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what's the plan
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war is a serious business we should
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understand that by now you don't have
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ask your way into one and certainly
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don't have as your way out of one that
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doesn't seem to resonate around here
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since a Russian offensive began we have
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sent more than
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174 billion taxpayer dollars to Ukraine
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one of the most corrupt countries in the
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world recently the Biden Harris
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Administration announced their intent
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their intent to send an additional 700
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million taxpayer dollars to
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Ukraine in cash are you kidding
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me why on Earth would we give cash to
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the most corrupt country on the face of
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the
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planet so after all
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that after the last two and a half years
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of funding billions of taxpayer
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dollars getting hundreds of thousands of
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people
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killed what do we have to show for
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it the war has only gotten worse
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hundreds of thousand are dead Ukraine is
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becoming more desperate as its forces
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are engineering
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widespread insubordination and even Mass
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desertion we don't hear that on TV we
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don't hear that in this propaganda media
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over 6 million ukrainians have fled the
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country have run have left our country
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Ukraine is playing with
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fire now seeking to conduct offensive
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operations deep inside Russia why you
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can't win most recently Ukraine launched
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a drone attack that struck in
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Moscow what are we trying to do start
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World War
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III most recently Ukraine launched a
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drone attack struck several other office
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buildings in Moscow
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adding to the uncertainty of this
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situation this administration's current
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policy towards Ukraine has all the
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Hallmarks of every Biden Harris foreign
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policy decision that has preceded it
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weak planning disaster results zero
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leadership this Administration never
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considered the consequences of Ukraine
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losing how can that ever
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happen this is really sad it's sad for
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the United States of America it's sad
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for the taxpayers it's sad for our
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military it's sad for our allies and
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it's sad for
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NATO some of the democratic colleagues
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have said Joe Biden never made a correct
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decision to form policy in 40 years well
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they hadn't broke
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that Biden Harris Administration has
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dumped billions of dollars also into the
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lap of
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Iran remove the terrorist designation
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from the hoodies who by the way we're
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fighting against right now but they're
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not
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terrorists alienated one of our most
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important friends Saudi Arabia and
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they've executed the disasters
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Afghanistan and a withdrawal that
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unnecessarily CA the lives of Americans
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all this weakness was a direct signal to
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our
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adversaries Now's the Time to make your
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move and that's exactly what our
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adversaries
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China Iran Russia and North Korea are
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doing China today testing another
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ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean
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they're
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preparing Russia now has pounced on
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Ukraine whatever you hear in the media
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is not
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true it is a Slaughter Iran has released
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its proxies and terrorized the Middle
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East our Ally Israel is fighting for its
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life against Hamas following the
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gruesome October 7th attack almost a
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year ago the hoodies the hoodies are a
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bunch of people that live in the
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mountains have been emboldened to attack
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ships which has negatively impacted
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global
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trade we can't even beat the hoodies and
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we're trying to create more
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Wars China has stepped up its aggression
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in the China Sea we're losing influence
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across the GL Globe especially in South
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America and Africa where the Chinese and
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the Russians are taking over we're
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leaving Leaps and Bounds so let's be
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very clear despite the administration's
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incompetence I still believe Putin was
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wrong to invade Ukraine and I think we
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all
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do he should have withdrawn his forces
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immediately after it started Putin is
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responsible for his actions and he has
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made no secret of the fact that he sees
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Ukraine as historically a part of Russia
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at the same time I do not think that
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Ukraine's border is more important than
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ours not even
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close which we have been completely
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neglected and neglecting the last three
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and a half years we have been overrun
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Southern border northern border and from
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airplanes all over the world flying into
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our cities it's an
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embarrassment we do not need the
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administration to enable Ukraine to use
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offensive weapons and strike strike deep
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into Russia that cannot happen we are on
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the cusp of a nuclear war nobody seems
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concerned it won't happen yes it will
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happen Putin is told us it will happen
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if you continue this this would only
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escalate this conflict to an entirely
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entirely new level that none of us can
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ever imagine do you think this offensive
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would convince Putin to come to the
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table and negotiate a peace agreement
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well I would hope we would go but we do
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not seem to want to make a peace
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agreement we had better and we better do
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it in the very near
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future this will provoke him to even
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more deadly weapons if we continue to
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attack within their
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borders costing more and more lives NATO
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and the US would be forced to respond as
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a
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result we're trying to create a war we
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must consider these questions thoroughly
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before we involve ourselves in another
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one of these crazy conflicts that should
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never
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happen improvising won't cut
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it now is the time for the US to lead
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and negotiate a piece to the end of this
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Bloody
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War I keep hearing people say well we're
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building equipment for our military yeah
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right or argue men and women are not
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losing their lives we're getting close
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to it we're getting very
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close now look I come from a military
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state in the state of Alabama we build
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everything we have thousands of
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troops I want it to be well funded and
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well equipped if we ever have to fight a
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war we need a lethal killing machine to
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deter other
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aggression that's what a military is
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about this is not about defining our
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military I want our military laser
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focused on protecting Americans and not
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woke Dei
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initiatives and it's not about
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abandoning our allies either we need to
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support our allies it's about this
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administration's funding a proxy war
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with no plan zero no plan on how to stop
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it or how to win
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it Biden Harris Administration needs to
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negotiate a peace agreement now
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immediately or there will be huge
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disastrous consequences coming in the
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very near
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future Mr President I yield the floor