Tucker Carlson: “We now lack the defensive capacity to send American troops…”

“Not whining about it, not attacking Israel, but just like, hey, for a little perspective Here, your cities are still largely intact because American taxpayers paid to defend them, by the way, to our own detriment. We now lack the defensive capacity to send American troops other places in the world if we needed to, because we expended it defending you in a war that you got us into. So the vice President said that, and then he said this in a now famous clip, which is worth re watching here it is.” (20:35–20:50)

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