In the late 1930s, Winston Churchill described what he saw as a gathering storm.

The forces of Hitler and the access of evil, threatening freedom and democracy. of watching thousands of mothers and their children fleeing in fear, fleeing their own country after

the invasion.

And the polls told us, this is just like 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland. Today we are at a

similar inflection point in history. The fall of Afghanistan sent a

powerfully dangerous message to our adversaries that America was weak, almost

immediately after the Russian Federation began moving

towards Ukraine and once Chairman She met with Putin at the Olympics and

cemented their unholy alliance, they invaded. Chairman, she has become more

aggressive in the Pacific and marked my words, she is watching what happens in Ukraine to determine whether he

invades Taiwan and the Pacific. And then the Ayatollah raised his ugly head in the Middle East.

And last Saturday the world watched as Iran for the first time in history, invaded Israel, sending 300 missiles and drones

to kill innocent Israelis.

These dictators, including North Korea, are all tied together. They are all tied together.

We cannot separate them. We don't pick or and choose our enemies. They

choose us. My father served as a bombardier in World War II. He was part of the

greatest generation. I recently took my son to my father's Air Base in

England where he was stationed and while there we

visited the church where my father prayed not knowing if he would live or die.

I took my son to the National Cemetery

for the U.S. airmen who never made it home.

And I pointed to the 4,000 crosses and said son those are the ones who

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