During an interview on Newsmax TV on Friday, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) stated that the Chinese spy balloon incident needs to be “a Sputnik moment” for the United States. Waltz stated, “I think a potential silver lining from this spy
On Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) said China’s hypersonic missile test is “worse than Sputnik. Because we’re farther behind” than we were on the Sputnik launch. Gallagher stated, “[W]e need to understand that it’s worse than Sputnik.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-TX) said China’s missile test is “kind of a Sputnik moment,” and that “the technology, in most part, came from the United
On Monday’s broadcast of “Fox News Primetime,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said the nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that China tested is “the ultimate first attack weapon” because hypersonic missiles can evade U.S. defense systems, and “This is a Sputnik moment, and we
The headline in Axios on August 8 demanded attention: “Sputnik moment for U.S. military.” For his part, Virgil paid particularly close attention, since he published a piece with virtually the same headline, for Breitbart News, back on September 16, 2017: “The Threat from China — America’s New ‘Sputnik Moment.’”