McCain thinks Trump will face foreign crisis early in presidency
“I think President Trump will probably be tested by one or more of these forces around the world. That would be the North Koreans, the Chinese, the Iranians or the Russians,” McCain — chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee—- told members and senators during a closed-door briefing on national security.
.. The Arizona Republican, a Vietnam War hero who was the GOP presidential nominee in 2008, also said he believed Putin is “bent on restoring the Russian Empire.”
.. Thornberry, for instance, said U.S. defense spending — by far the highest in the world — is “$100 billion” below where it should be, and he called for an end to spending caps that have restricted defense expenditures.
McCain claimed there are “planes that can’t fly and ships that can’t leave port” because the Obama administration let the armed forces degrade so badly.