What Mark Warner has said about United States war with Iran

Warner says the war has left neither the U.S., Gulf allies, nor Israel stronger.

“None of that makes us, none of that makes our Gulf allies, none of it even frankly makes Israel stronger than when we started 107 days ago”

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Warner says public claims that most of Iran's ballistic missiles were destroyed are untrue.

“The earlier estimates, and I can say this because it's in the public, that we had eliminated 70, 80, 90% are just factually not true”

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Warner criticizes the U.S. for rejecting Ukraine's offer of anti-drone technology.

“it was so insane that we didn't take the Ukrainians offer in December, where they were going to say, we will give you our anti-drone technology”

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Warner says Trump deserves no credit for the war but that ending it was better than continuing.

“I'm not going to give him credit, but I'm glad he ended it rather than continued what could have led to even a worse circumstance”

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