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Eric Hovde: “Putin moved on Ukraine, the ayatollah of Iran moved through…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Eric Hovde, Ben Shapiro interview

Published | Video Starts at 35:31

We left billions of dollars of the high tech military equipment behind. I mean, you couldn't do anything more incompetent. So to me, that's our adversary. Saw that Putin moved on Ukraine, the ayatollah of Iran moved through their proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah on Israel. And China's gotten more and more aggressive. And you're following what's going on in China and the South China Sea, conflicts over philippine islands, conflicts with Vietnam, increasing pressure on Taiwan. (35:31–35:39)

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Asserts that Russia, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah have taken aggressive actions following U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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