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Rick Scott: “XI is on a war footing. Russia is clearly on a war footing…”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

Responding to Global Threats: A Conversation with Senator Rick Scott

Published July 27, 2026 | Video Starts at 40:06

We have to be on a war footing. The other countries are on a war footing. I mean, XI is on a war footing. You look at what he's saying internally, he's XI is on a war footing. Russia is clearly on a war footing. Iran's always been on a war footing. So. And they always probably have Been. We just didn't think about it. And you can't appease these people. I mean, appeasement has never worked. (40:06–40:15)

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Asserts that China, Russia, and Iran are currently in a state of military readiness.

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“Seven and a half years ago, 85% of the drones that federal government bought were Chinese.”
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“90% of the ingredients [for generic drugs] come from China.”
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“25% of the companies [Chinese and Indian] have FDA violations with almost no inspections.”
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“When I was over there, what, a year or so ago, I think they said in one week, 20% of their population can be ready to fight.”
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“Budget does nothing. Just so you know, that's why we're running 2 trillion dollar deficits.”
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“Putin doesn't care about his own citizens, and he indiscriminately kills people in Ukraine.”
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“Ayatollah just, what, last week, two people were hung for, for protecting protesters.”
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“The Castro brothers... took over Cuba, and all they've done is suppress the people and killed people and killed Americans.”
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“Cuba... they put kids in prison because they go protest because their parents don't have electricity.”
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“North Korea has a nuclear capability now.”
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“If the Ayatollah gets a nuclear weapon, he can drop it in Washington, D.C. or Tampa, Florida, pretty easily.”
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“China's building... they're clearly building the military to defeat us.”
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“Venezuela, not that far from the States... Hezbollah's been there.”
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“In Iran, they're just murdering their own citizens over just peaceful protests.”
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“They've been killing us for 47 years.”
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“We are forever going to have to continue to make sure [Iran doesn't] have a nuclear weapon or they're going to have a regime change.”
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“The best way to defend yourself is deterrence.”
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“I believe in the NATO alliance, but they got to show up and do their job.”
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“If they don't want to do their part, then why are we there? Let's get out of that.”
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“Now what they have to have is they have to have an America, and they have to have us that will sell them the weapons they need.”
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“We are at war. So we have a lot of catching up to do. It's not the next war is drone war. This war is a drone war.”
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“We're doing the reconciliation, hopefully next week, to provide more funding for our military.”
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“The Biden years, the Obama years, they really decimated our military.”
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“We keep buying stuff from China, we keep giving them the resources to be able to build a military.”
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“I'm doing everything I can to stop any purchasing [from China].”
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“I think it'll finish today at 11:30.”
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“Trump will sign it [the sanctions act].”
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“If we don't build up our defense, we're fools.”
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“China has put unblue resources into space and we haven't. They have significant space capability. And we are behind.”
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“They're way ahead of us as far as the amount of drones.”
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“We shouldn't have Chinese stocks on our stock exchange.”
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“We shouldn't allow Chinese students to come to America.”
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“We still buy most of our generic drugs from India or China, which is most of our drugs.”
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“North Korea is building missiles to be able to get to America.”
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“Xi [Jinping] kills his own citizens, steals organs from his own citizens, treats Uyghurs horrible.”
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“We're running two, almost $2 trillion deficits.”
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“Inflation cannot, cannot go away when you run $2 trillion deficits.”
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“The risk is not in Germany. It's probably the risk is in the Baltic states.”
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“If Germany's not going to do its part, and so it's stepping up now.”
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“Finland has been at risk. They've known they've been at risk. They never stopped spending money on their defense.”
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“Poland has stepped up with their military.”
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