{"id":1848829,"date":"2023-02-16T05:20:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T10:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848829"},"modified":"2023-02-16T05:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T10:20:45","slug":"experts-warn-congress-not-to-cut-defense-spending-another-putin-invasion-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/experts-warn-congress-not-to-cut-defense-spending-another-putin-invasion-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts Warn Congress Not To Cut Defense Spending: Another Putin Invasion Likely"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexperts-warn-congress-not-to-cut-defense-spending-another-putin-invasion-likely%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848829&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Russia may invade countries other than Ukraine, said a former national-security adviser to Donald Trump. The testimony was made before Congress on Wednesday. It warned against U.S. defense expenditure cuts that some House Republicans proposed as part of the debt-limit negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin, Russian President is &#8220;interested in reacquiring territory in what was the space of the former Russian Empire,&#8221; Fiona Hill, a former member of President Trump&#8217;s National Security Council, spoke to the Senate Armed Services Committee. &#8220;All of those countries feel a great deal of anxiety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Putin has said the world needs to get used to the fact that Russia is territorially expanding again,&#8221; Hill, a Brookings Institution senior Fellow who specializes in Russia &#038; Europe, said. &#8220;This is a pretty grim picture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Approaching the one-year anniversary of Russia&#8217;s invasion, more\u2014not less\u2014investment in U.S. defense capabilities is needed, members of the expert panel told lawmakers Wednesday. They warned that America might fail to fulfill Ukraine&#8217;s demands and fall behind China, Russia, and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Volodymyr Zelensky is the Ukrainian president, and he seeks Western support for Russia&#8217;s defense war against Russia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/vladimir-putin-could-invade-europe-within-a-year-volodymyr-zelensky-warns-nato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It has warned<\/a>\u00a0Moscow wants territory in Europe. Both Moldova and Russia are interested in acquiring territory elsewhere in Europe. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2023\/02\/13\/moldova-fears-it-might-fall-victim-to-a-russian-coup-plot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pro-Western government<\/a> And <a href=\"https:\/\/emerging-europe.com\/news\/kazakhstan-pivots-away-from-russia-one-yurt-at-a-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kazakhstan<\/a> Many expressed concern about Russia&#8217;s threat.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2014which has undertaken its own massive military buildup in recent years\u2014is happy to see the war in Ukraine continue to drain America&#8217;s resources, according to Hill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China has no interest in Russia losing in this war and might, in fact, have a vested interest in this war going on in Ukraine as long as possible because of course it does take up a large amount of equipment and armaments,&#8221; She spoke.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is now at the forefront of international affairs, with Russia showing no sign of retreating. &#8220;the precipice of a new stage in the war where Ukraine will need tanks and other conventional offensive platforms,&#8221; Roger Zakheim, an ex-official of the Armed Services Committee, is Washington, D.C.&#8217;s director for The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;massive consumption&#8221; The destruction of military hardware in Ukraine has shown America&#8217;s inability quickly to produce military equipment. Zakheim urged that the United States retake its military equipment &#8220;builder&#8217;s mindset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the midst negotiations between House Republicans, the White House about raising the debt ceiling and a compromise on the budget, progressive Democrats have joined forces with isolationist GOP lawmakers in pushing for substantial cuts to defense spending to combat America&#8217;s $1.4 Trillion deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is likely to invade countries beyond Ukraine, a former national security adviser to Donald Trump testified before Congress on Wednesday, warning against cuts to U.S. defense spending proposed by some House Republicans as part of debt-limit talks.<br \/>\nThe post Experts Warn Congress Not To Cut Defense Spending: Another Putin Invasion Likely appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1848832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4402,9677,3998,4521,10889,3733,3834,3968],"class_list":["post-1848829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-congress","tag-cut","tag-defense","tag-experts","tag-invasion","tag-putin","tag-spending","tag-warn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}