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Derrick Van Orden: “We're not asking you to do something that you can't do…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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ELON Sets His Sights On The PENTAGON | Ep 392

Published | Video Starts at 37:17

And they're asking me, why are we sending hundreds of millions of dollars to a country we had never heard of until now? Essentially, everyone was saying, Chicken Kiev. Apparently it's Chicken Kyiv. I mean, who knew? And so We're not asking you to do something that you can't do. We're asking you to do something that you don't want to do. And also, I said, look, man, could you imagine. Could you imagine the security posture of Europe if everybody in NATO who agreed a decade ago did what they said they were going to do? (37:17–37:26)

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Asserts that NATO countries are capable of meeting their defense spending commitments but choose not to.

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