These two countries are threatening our security. Russia clearly wants to reshape the security relationship in Europe. Obviously, if they win the war in Ukraine, we all know what is next because they have told us they will be on the border of NATO encroaching on and threaten our security.
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And for those, Martha, who are worried about China as being our number one threat, that will force the United States to put more forces and more resources into Europe at the expense of our focus to China. And then we have China. If Russia wins, China wins. And that will incentivize them. And certainly Taiwan is in their near term objective. And we've already seen what their behavior is and how comprehensive it is. We have never faced a threat like China in our history. It is so comprehensive. It touches every aspect – economic, technological, military and geopolitical.
And they want to dominate all of those areas. And in some of them, they already are militarily and eventually technologically. This is a very serious threat to the United States and our security. And buttoned up with Russia makes it absolutely worse.