“We need to lead from a position of strength … Too often the Biden Administration reverses that. They think we can deter hard men, brutal dictators like Putin and Xi Jinping with mean tweets from state dept accounts or the vague threat of sanctions. Only hard power deters.”
“The advances that the CCP’s military has made on the nuclear front has been absolutely stunning. Of course, they are not bound by many of these treaties that we continually refer to. So it’s not only on the nuclear and strategic side, it’s on the conventional side … Time is simply not on our side.”
Watch the full interview here.