With Russian President Vladimir Putin at war with the West in Ukraine, the need to protect Arctic Alaska from foreign aggression was an area of agreement on Saturday among Alaska’s U.S. Senate candidates.
Republican U.S. Senate candidates, incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Kelly Tshibaka, at the Alaska Federation of Natives candidate forum on Saturday.
America’s “secret weapon,” Murkowski said, is Alaska’s Arctic communities and the Alaska National Guard, which she said she’s committed to getting sufficiently equipped and trained.U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka speaks with attendees of AFN. “I’ve spent over a decade serving as a senior leader in the national security community,” she said at the forum, adding that most of her service was during the Obama administration. “So with that background, I’m the only candidate up here who has a subject matter experience and the relationships in the national security community to successfully advocate for an expanded defense in order to strengthen our readiness and preparedness in the Arctic.
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