🚨 After 584 days in captivity, U.S. citizen Edan Alexander is finally free—and met with @POTUS at the White House today. We've lost count of how many hostages have been returned to their families this year. 🇺🇸.

8⃣ The U.S. won 20th century wars through mass production. Today, our adversaries build faster than we do. It’s time to end the Arsenal of Bureaucracy and become the Arsenal of Democracy.

7⃣ Our report offers key reforms:.— Appoint a single DoD lead for FMS.— Impose hard deadlines on interagency reviews.— Stockpile high-demand systems.— Simplify licensing blocking co-production. Slashing delays, changing laws, and cutting red tape is the only way to force change.

6⃣ This isn’t hypothetical. If war breaks out against the CCP tomorrow, we do not have the industrial capacity to keep up. Deterrence is meaningless if we can’t sustain it. And we can’t sustain it if we can’t build it.

5⃣ It’s not just allies losing patience. American industry is losing interest. Without predictability, manufacturers don’t invest. Workers don’t get hired. And when war comes, we could run out of weapons in days—not years.

4⃣ Our arms sales system treats close allies like Israel and Japan the same as hostile governments. Why should they all have to endure the same bureaucratic gauntlet?. We propose a Trusted Partners List, cutting timelines and fast-tracking sales to friends who buy American.

3⃣ The FMS process is collapsing under its own weight: . 🔁 Endless reviews.📑 5,000+ pages of regulation.🕰️ Years-long timelines.⚠️ No consequences for contractor delays. This isn’t a procurement process. It’s a bottleneck built for peacetime, not preventing 21st century wars.

2⃣ The problem hasn't gone away: red tape and delays keep stalling our arms shipments. Taiwan has $20B in delayed U.S. systems. Poland’s HIMARS took 18+ months. The Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and others are waiting. Delays aren’t just frustrating—they kill deterrence.

1⃣ Under Biden, we saw:.— 300+ Iranian attacks on U.S. forces. — 1,200 civilians massacred in Israel. — 1,000,000 casualties in Ukraine. — Record CCP provocations on Taiwan & others. Our world was in chaos—and we couldn't get weapons to allies fast enough to defend themselves.

🚨 THREAD: Of all the swampish processes in Washington, none may hurt our national security or pocketbook more than our broken Foreign Military Sales system. Our latest report outlines what America must do to reverse the damage and win the new Cold War. 🧵⬇️

5⃣ The road to war runs through appeasement. 🚨. Biden's policies didn't get us de-escalation. They got us October 7. They bankrolled Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in their war on Israel. And refusing to punish Iran for its nuclear threats all but forced @POTUS to strike.

4⃣ The CCP tests America at its own peril. 🇨🇳. China banked on Iran as its Gulf proxy. Trump crushed that bet. From Soleimani to Fordow, @POTUS sent a warning to Beijing: don't test America. The China fight will be global—and maintaining peace requires a major defense buildup.

3⃣ MAGA Republicans reject isolationism. 🇺🇸🌎. @POTUS ignored the appeasers and hit Iran, proving the media’s portrayal of him as isolationist is pure fiction. @ReaganInstitute's polling shows MAGA voters agree: 90% say Iran must be denied the bomb. Some “isolationism,” right?

2⃣ Escalation panic was dead wrong. ❌. U.S. intervention did not cause WW3 or endless war. Not a single American died. There were no $30/gallon gasoline prices. Iran’s regime folded under pressure and couldn't even muster a real retaliation.

1️⃣ Israel is the ideal America First partner. 🇮🇱 . Israel dismantled Iran’s terror network, nukes, and missile infrastructure—all without asking for a single American boot on the ground. They only asked us for what they didn't have: B-2 bombers and bunker busters for Fordow.

🧵🇮🇷 THREAD: Just days ago, @POTUS led one of the most daring military campaigns in modern history—striking the heart of Iran’s nuclear program. Here are the top five lessons we learned⬇️.

🇨🇺 BREAKING: @POTUS reinstates Maximum Pressure on Cuba’s communist regime, cracking down on its repression and starving it of revenue. The days of Biden’s appeasement policies are over. America stands with the Cuban people in their fight for freedom.

🇹🇼 ICYMI: Czech authorities exposed a CCP plot to crash a car into Taiwan’s VP-elect Hsiao Bi-khim to intimidate her. So much for those defending Beijing as a “responsible global actor.”. @polarisnatsec stands with Taipei and all who resist authoritarian bullying.

BREAKING: The Senate soundly defeats Tim Kaine’s reckless War Powers stunt aimed at tying America’s hands and shielding Iran’s nuclear program. A clear message: Congress won’t kneecap American or Israeli security while Tehran still lusts for the bomb.

Bravo to @SecRubio and the Trump Administration for securing this historic DRC-Rwanda peace agreement. This is a major step toward ending the brutal conflict in Eastern Congo. When America leads, we have wars end—not endless wars. 🇺🇸