Former Undersecretary of Defense Robert Wilkie told Newsmax on Tuesday that weakening the Russians, as the Ukrainians did over the weekend with a drone strike on Kremlin airbases and aircraft, weakens the Chinese and is a “great threat” to the United States.

“This is the most complicated national security environment in the post-World War II era, because we’re not just looking at the old sclerotic Soviet Union,” Wilkie said on “Wake Up America.” “They were pretty one-dimensional. They were brute force and nothing else.

“Behind all of this, behind the Iranians, behind the Russians, behind the North Koreans is China. China’s designs to replace the United States as the most important power on the planet, not just in military, but in economic terms, is there. The Russians are joined at the hip with the Chinese. The Iranians are joined at the hip with the Chinese.”

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