The U.S. military needs to husband its resources so that it has the ability to protect America’s core national security interests. Because of the unparalleled extent of the challenge posed by China, U.S. defense spending must be focused on the Indo-Pacific.

The National Defense Strategy identifies China as the primary threat to U.S. national security interests. This makes sense, given that China boasts an economy second only to our own, has engaged in a massive military buildup, and is laser-focused on displacing the United States as the preeminent power in the Indo-Pacific.

And yet, President Joe Biden’s latest supplemental budget request to Congress contains $60.6 billion in aid to Ukraine and only $5 billion in American shipbuilding and security assistance to allies in the Indo-Pacific.

Perhaps realizing how unpopular the transfer of huge amounts of weapons and money to Ukraine has become, the Biden administration and its allies in Congress and the media instead have attempted to argue that the bill primarily would aid the U.S. defense industrial base and replenish the military’s already depleted stockpiles.

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