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Ruben Gallego: “We need to move from deterrence by punishment and waiting…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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Senator Ruben Gallego's Keynote Remarks┃FP4A's 2026 Leadership Summit

Published | Video Starts at 05:39

… it, that are going to be sitting ducks in a modern conflict and will end up costing our taxpayers more and more. We need to learn the lessons from Ukraine. We need to move from deterrence by punishment and waiting for invasion and then reacting to it. and hopefully pushing back on places like Russia to arming our allies and ourselves to truly move to deterrence by denial so they would ever think again about invading. (05:39–05:46)

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Asserts the need to shift from reactive to proactive military strategies.

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