McConnell: ‘We Need to Empower Our Armed Forces ... Beijing Didn’t Take a Thanksgiving Break from Its Historic Military Buildup’

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MCCONNELL: “This is Congress’s primary opportunity to shape America’s national security priorities and set the course of strategic competition with major adversaries. We need to empower our armed forces with a clear directive for the many challenges they face. We need to prepare them to deter and fight future wars, not drag them into political culture wars. We need to focus on our military on geopolitics, not climate politics. But at this especially dangerous moment, we also need to deliver supplemental resources to help both America and our partners defend against linked threats from our biggest adversaries — Russia, Iran, and China. Make no mistake, the PRC is not deterred. Beijing didn’t take a Thanksgiving break from its historic military buildup, its threats to the freedom of navigation in internal waters — international waters, or its efforts to meddle in Taiwan’s domestic politics. Russia is not deterred.”